Product Description: This book brings to light fascinating details about the real cost of public education―one of America's biggest industries. It demonstrates that government statistics on the costs of public education substantially understate the actual costs to taxpayers...read more

Product Description: In this startling expose, Lieberman shows how the teachers' unions raise and spend vast sums to maintain their power over education and to push a narrow political agenda. Even dues-paying teachers will be angered to learn how their unions stifle dissent, sabotage meaningful reform, and hold parents hostage to bureaucracy...read more

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Product Description: As a writer on education reform, Myron Lieberman has criticized the National Education Association (NEA) and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) for standing in the way of needed improvement in our schools. One of the most telling criticisms of these organizations is that they have been too quick to defend teachers charged with incompetence...read more

An experienced contracts negotiator for teachers' unions reveals how the nation's largest teachers' unions have blocked efforts to reform public education, diverted taxpayer money to partisan political causes, and suppressed dissent within their ranks. 17,500 first printing. Tour. (view table of contents)

Product Description: In this blistering critique of our failing public schools and our fuzzy thinking about how to fix them, Myron Lieberman explains why public education is in irreversible and terminal decline and tells us what we must do to get American schooling back on track...read more

From Library Journal: Educational reform is a recurring national topic among politicians, parents, and students. After an extensive two-year study (demonstrated by an excellent "Notes" section), the author focuses on two areas of reform--the private sector in the educational system, and choice within public/private educational systems. Both these areas become mutually inclusive at several points in the discussion, which, the author states, is presented primarily for those persons who can make a difference--state legislators, state/local educational officials. The contracting out of all or part of the educational services is suggested as the best use of privatization; educational choice through the use of the voucher system is discussed thoroughly. Lieberman brings both areas of reform together in his theory that the best approach to educational reform at the elementary and secondary levels would be the use of a contract between the parents and the educational provider of choice, for a mutually agreed-upon outcome for each individual student, thus providing a system responsive to the needs of each student--which is the basic premise of the educational reform movement. For informed laypersons as well as educators and public officials. - A. R. Huggins, Memphis State Univ. Libs. Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.