Education Myths: What Special Interest Groups Want You to Believe About Our Schools--And Why It Isn't So
By Jay P. Greene.
Description
How can we fix America's floundering public schools? The conventional wisdom says that schools need a lot more money, that poor and immigrant children can't do as well as most American kids, that high-stakes tests just produce teaching to the test, and that vouchers do little to help students while undermining our democracy. But what if the conventional wisdom is wrong? In Education Myths: What Special Interest Groups Want You to Believe About Our Schools―And Why It Isn't So, Jay Greene and the researchers at the Manhattan Institute have gathered the evidence to show that muc...
ISBN(s)
0742549771, 9780742549777
