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We should hold public schools accountable for effectively spending the vast funds with which they have been entrusted. But instead of grading a school's progress in just math and reading (No Child Left Behind), we should hold schools accountable for the broad outcomes we expect from public education — basic knowledge and skills, critical thinking, an appreciation of the arts, physical and emotional health, and preparation for skilled employment — and then develop the means to measure, and ensure, schools' success in achieving them. Richard Rothstein's new book, Grading Education, describes a new kind of accountability plan for public education, one that relies upon both higher-quality testing and professional evaluation.

The book, 'Leaving School: Finding Education' comprehensively explains how American schools have failed to make the transition to the new technological age of the 21st Century. As America enters this new millennium, parents, educators and even politicians are seeking a way out of the fiscal burdens and performance failures that characterize America's schools.

A new book by the former CEO of H&R Block shares what he learned when he dropped out of corporate life to do something tougher and more fulfilling. Stand for the Best reveals some hard truths about America, illuminates the joys of pursuing one's passion, and challenges the rest of us to give back to our troubled nation.

by Rafael Turner (Author)

BY JEROME R. CORSI, PH.D.

 

In this thoroughly researched and documented book, THE OBAMA NATION: LEFTIST POLITICS AND THE CULT OF PERSONALITY (Threshold Editions; August 1st, 2008; $28.00), the #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry, Jerome R. Corsi, Ph.D., explains why the extreme leftism of an Obama presidency would leave the United States weakened, diminished, and divided, and why Obama must be defeated—and how he can be…

Inside the Secret Garden attempts to provide a general account of state education. Like Chris Woodhead’s Class War, and Melanie Phillips’ All Must Have Prizes, its central and perhaps familiar idea is that schools are failing because their political guardians have subscribed to a romantic worldview that runs counter to the essentially conservative nature of education.

Group claiming to create reading opportunities for kids may have turned down book because it doesn’t support affirmative action.
Los Angeles, CA - A new bilingual kids book is apparently "unfit" for the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) because it shows kids that affirmative action actually hinders their success. But the author of Joey Gonzalez, Great American (WND Books, ISBN 978-0-976726-93-7, March 2008) believes he understands why Bookends, a non-profit organization that provides used childrens’ books to LAUSD inner-city school libraries, has rejected his donation.

By Allen Quist
Beverly Eakman's new book, Walking Targets, is a detailed and accurate description of the troubling and dangerous state of education in contemporary United States of America.

by Professor Alice Coleman (Author), Mona McNee (Author) is not just about reading. It chronicles the long war between 'progressive' educationists and those who advocate teaching based on evidence of what works. The word 'progressive', the authors explain, has been separated from its true meaning and used to 'cast a rosy glow over what has really been a regressive decline'.