As I was reading this book, some of the passages I read had me nearly setting the book down to go call my congresspeople. The book's too interesting, though, and I just had to finish it. Now, I'm torn. I will homeschool my children. That, however, does not exempt me from caring about the education of my neighbor's kids or the kids who will eventually be driving and working and living near me. So, what do I need to do? ...
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The author of this book is absolutely right on in every respect concerning the state of public school education and the preparation of our teachers and adminstrators. I suspected this for years when i was in college observing practices in the school of education though never a part of it thank God! Then the impressions i got from my children's teachers during parent teacher conferences years later. I thought these people...
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Author Martin Gross does an excellent job challenging the educational establishment's claim that poor student performance over the last thirty years is due largely to factors outside of the classroom. In a hard hitting way, Gross articulates that the establishment -- teachers, administrators, and education buearucrats are responsible for low performance, due to their quest with new ideas and the mandate for a growing educational...
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Gross may be guilty of an occasional lapse, but the bottom-line truth of the matter is that he is right, right, right. As a professor at major state university, I can attest to the veracity of his claims. The average entering freshman is broadly ignorant: of language, literature, mathematics, science, history, geography and the arts. Grammar is an enigma; spelling a mystery; vocabulary, a shrunken facsimile of what a high...
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I thoroughly enjoyed Mr. Gross' painfully honest review of today's teachers. It is the first book I have read that portrays today's education professional with realism. Hopefully, more parents will read this book and understand the motives of the Establishment and immediately work to improve the situation in their school systems. I know I am...
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