
This paperback edition, with a new introduction, offers a powerful, compelling, and unassailable argument for reforming America's schooling methods and ideas--by one of America's most important educators, and author of the bestselling Cultural Literacy. For over...


A child's mind is hungry for knowledge, stimulation, and the excitement of learning which school should provide--yet most American schools fall far short. From kindergarten through high school, our public educational system is among the worst in the developed world. In disdaining...

A child's mind is hungry for knowledge, stimulation, and the excitement of learning which school should provide--yet most American schools fall far short. From kindergarten through high school, our public educational system is among the worst in the developed world. In disdaining...