Product Description: ''With NCLB down for the count, Grading Education puts forth the most comprehensive analysis and set of reform proposals to date. It should be required reading for everyone on Capitol Hill and in state capitols as well.''-- Jacob Ludes, III, Executive Director/CEO, New England Association of Schools and Colleges''If you want to understand how policymakers, often with the best of intentions, are narrowing children's education and bollixing up school accountability -- and if you want to learn about what could be done about that -- Rothstein's well-written and timely book is a must-read...read more

Product Description: It seems to be a common-sense argument that, if teachers know how to teach reading, or math, or any other subject, and if schools emphasize the importance of these tasks and permit no distractions, children should be able to learn regardless of their family income or skin color...read more

Product Description: Contemporary public policy assumes that the achievement gap between black and white students could be closed if only schools would do a better job. According to Richard Rothstein, “Closing the gaps between lower-class and middle-class children requires social and economic reform as well as school improvement...read more

Product Description: Private schools always provide a better education than public schools. Or do they? Inner-city private schools, most of which are Catholic, suffer from the same problems neighboring public schools have including large class sizes, unqualified teachers, outdated curricula, lack of parental involvement and stressful family and community circumstances...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In the Economic Policy Institute's book, The Class Size Debate, two eminent economists debate the merits of smaller class size and the research methods used to gauge the efficacy of this education reform measure.

Argues that the contemporary claims of school failure are wrong and that there is no credible evidence or data for evaluation (view table of contents)

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Product Description: Book by Rothstein, Richard