Dumbing Down Our Kids: Why America's Children Feel Good About Themselves but Can't Read, Write, or Add by Charles J. Sykes

Dumbing Down Our Kids: Why America's Children Feel Good
About Themselves but Can't Read, Write, or Add
by Charles J. Sykes

Why our kids rank near to, or at the bottom of international tests in math and science

Why "self-esteem" has supplanted grades and genuine achievements

How the educational establishment lowers standards and quality in our schools - while continuing to raise their budgets and our school taxes

The dumbing down of the curriculum so everyone can pass - but no one can excel

How parents, students, and teachers can evaluate schools and restore quality learning

Our nation's schools are in crisis, and our children are wholly unprepared to compete in the twenty-first century.

Dumbing Down Our Kids is a searing indictment of America's secondary schools - one that every parent and teacher should read.

Dumbing Down Our Kids offers a full-scale investigation of the new educational fad, sometimes called "Outcome Based Education" - the latest in a long series of "reforms" that has eroded our schools.

"This intelligent and devastating book... brings together every aspect of the current disaster ... all in clear, well-researched detail." - The Boston Globe
"A spirited call-to-arms ... Sykes asks brave questions." - Cleveland Plain Dealer
"A scathing critique that grabs America's educational establishment by the scruff and shakes it ... Parents and visionary educators, if not educrats, should sit up and take notice." - Kirkus Reviews
"A very important book." - Washington Post Book World

CHARLES SYKES is the author of three previous books, ProfScam, The Hollow Men, and A Nation of Victims. A journalist who specializes in educational issues, he has written for and is frequently quoted by newspapers including The New York Times, USA Today, and The Wall Street Journal. He has appeared on The Today Show, The Late Late Show with Tom Snyder, and NPR's Talk of the Nation to discuss schooling. A senior fellow at the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute, Sykes lives with his wife and three children in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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