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Summary
Summary
This book explores a wide range of critical areas in education, examines the basic nature of our education problems, provides a clear understanding of underperformance, and proposes reasonable and effective strategies for success.
Author Notes
Lance T. Izumi , J.D. is Koret Senior Fellow and Senior Director of Education Studies at the Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy (PRI), California's premier free-market public-policy think tank based in San Francisco and Sacramento. Lance Izumi is a member of the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, the largest system of higher education in the nation with nearly 3 million students. He served two one-year terms as president of the Board of Governors from 2008 through 2009, and in 2010 he received an award recognizing his leadership and service.
Williamson M. Evers , a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and a member of the Institution's Koret Task Force on K-12 Education, was the US assistant secretary of education for policy from 2007 to 2009. In 2003, Evers served in Iraq as a senior adviser for education to Administrator L. Paul Bremer of the Coalition Provisional Authority. Evers has been a member of National Educational Research Policy and Priorities Board, a commissioner on the California State Academic Standards Commission, a trustee on the Santa Clara County Board of Education, and a president of the board of directors of the East Palo Alto Charter School.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments |
| Introduction |
| School Reforms Hinder Learning, Crusader Argues |
| A Unique School or Out of Step? |
| Opposing Approaches So Johnny Can Read: Finding the Answers in Drills and Rigor |
| The Schools They Deserve: Howard Gardner and the Remaking of Elite Education |
| Dictatorship of Virtue: Multiculturalism in Elementary and Secondary Schools |
| Should Schools Be Wired to the Internet?: No-Learn First, Surf Later |
| The Learning Revolution |
| Effective Education Squelched |
| The Concept of Grouping in Gifted Education: In Search of Reality-Unraveling the Myths about Tracking, Ability Grouping, and the Gifted |
| Ready, Read! |
| Failure Outside the Classroom |
| Student Customers Being Sold a Bad Product |
| Why Johnny Can't Fail: How the "Floating Standard" Has Destroyed Public Education |
| The Parent Trap |
| Who Teaches the Teachers? |
| Why Johnny's Teacher Can't Teach |
| The Truth About Teacher Salaries and Student Achievement |
| Why It's Too Hard to Fire Bad Teachers |
| How Teachers' Unions Handcuff Schools |
| Put Teachers to the Test |
| Top-Notch Teachers Are Key to Better Schools |
| School Unions Shortchange Students |
| A Taboo Erodes |
| Loco, Completamente Loco: The Many Failures of "Bilingual Education" |
| Defining Disability Down: Why Johnny Can't Read, Write, or Sit Still |
| Why Ritalin Rules |
| The Scandal of Special Ed |
| Developing and Implementing Academic Standards: A Template for Legislative Reform |
| The War Against Testing |
| Making America's Schools Work |
| Half of Choice Schools Spend Less than State Allots |
| Money and School Performance: Lessons from the Kansas City Desegregation Experiments |
| Public Schools: Make Them Private |
| Fighting for School Choice: It's a Civil Right |
| Whittling Away the Public School Monopoly |
| A Private Solution |
| Class Acts: How Charter Schools Are Revamping Public Education in Arizona-and Beyond |
| Healthy Competition |
| The Elixir of Class Size |
| Where Everybody Knows Your Name |
| Title I's $118 Billion Fails to Close Gap |
| Special Ed: Factory-like Schooling May Soon Be a Thing of the Past |
| "Doing Something" in a Catholic School |
| Index |
| Permissions |