ISBN: 978-1-57143-102-8
"Saving Our Schools exposes the ugly side of President George Bush's "No Child Left Behind" mandate, which has threatened to close more than 6,000 public schools, to the detriment of dedicated teachers and disadvantaged children alike. Revealing how NCLB forces schools with strictly limited resources to teach its children test-taking skills in a desperate bid to pass high-stakes standardized testing, and how the government blacklists successful professors, institutions, and methods that balk the NCLB party line, and much more, Saving Our Schools warns of an immediate threat to the integrity of public education and urges the reader to take action. An eye-opening social commentary, of keen importance in determining the nation's future. -Midwest Book Review
"Reading this book, one cannot help but wonder what the response would have been if former President Bill Clinton rather than President George W. Bush had proposed the law. It is easy to imagine that conservatives would have claimed that big government was attempting a power grab beyond anything including in Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal or Lyndon Johnson's Great Society." -The Louisville Courier Journal
Investigates the devastating results of forcing financially strapped schools to squander meager resources on high-stakes standardized testing, making the case against the "No Child Left Behind Act. -Foreword Magazine
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