Reinventing America's Schools Volume 2 Author:Kathi Hudson Education REform in Plain English...Explaining Both Sides of the Issue. — Public awareness and concern about educational issues has hit an all-time high. Declining test scores and rising problems of immorality and illiteracy among youth are catching the attention of school administrators, teachers, parents, and society at large. Something must ... more »be done to cure the ills of our American education system.
To address these problems, a plethora of "new" ideas have emerged. President George Bush's national America 2000 strategy, which has been adopted by most states, calls on us to "reinvent America's schools." We are at the point where we must carefully evaluate what the proper purpose of public education should be, and we must intensely scrutinize those ideas being offered as part of the cure.
The Reinventing America's Schools series is written in a fast-reading format to help you intelligently evaluate the most controversial restructuring issues.« less