Inside American Education
- ISBN-10
- 1439107629
- ISBN-13
- 9781439107621
- Category
- Education
- Pages
- 384
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2010-05-11
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Author
- Thomas Sowell
Description
An indictment of the American educational system criticizes the fact that the system has discarded the traditional goals of transmitting knowledge and fostering cognitive skills in favor of building self-esteem and promoting social harmony.
Get the book
Other editions
Similar books
-
The Education We Need for a Future We Can′t Predict
By Thomas Hatch, Jordan Corson, Sarah Gerth van den BergA powerful read on a topic of utmost importance." ~Michael Fullan, Professor Emeritus, OISE/Universtiy of Toronto "I cannot recommend this book highly enough – Tom tackles long-standing and emerging educational issues in new ways with an ...
-
Summary of Thomas Sowell's Inside American Education
By , Everest MediaPlease note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
-
The Schoolhouse Gate: Public Education, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for the American Mind
By Justin DriverDriver provides a fresh account of the historic legal battles, and argues that since the 1970s the Supreme Court has transformed public schools into Constitution-free zones.
-
Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
By John Taylor GattoThis second edition describes the wide-spread impact of the book and Gatto’s "guerrilla teaching." John Gatto has been a teacher for 30 years and is a recipient of the New York State Teacher of the Year award.
-
School: The Story of American Public Education
By Sarah MondaleOr are they our only recourse today? This lavishly illustrated companion book to the acclaimed PBS documentary, School, is essential reading for anyone who cares about public education.
-
Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools
By Jonathan KozolIn Savage Inequalities, Kozol delivers a searing examination of the extremes of wealth and poverty and calls into question the reality of equal opportunity in our nation's schools.
-
Inside the Black Box of Classroom Practice: Change Without Reform in American Education
By Larry CubanIn this book, he returns to this territory, but trains his focus on the still baffling fact that policy reforms--no matter how ambitious or determined--have generally had little effect on classroom conduct and practice.
-
The Education of Blacks in the South, 1860-1935
By James D. AndersonNew York: Phelps-Stokes Fund, 1927. Macy, Jesse. Our Government: How It Grew, What It Does, and How It Does It. Boston: Ginn, 1886. ... Meltzer, Milton, ed. In Their Own Words: A History of the American Negro. 3 vols.
-
Their Highest Potential: An African American School Community in the Segregated South
By Vanessa Siddle WalkerVanessa Siddle Walker tells the story of one such school in rural North Carolina, the Caswell County Training School, which operated from 1934 to 1969.
-
Closing of the American Mind
By Allan BloomIn 1987, eminent political philosopher Allan Bloom published The Closing of the American Mind, an appraisal of contemporary America that “hits with the approximate force and effect of electroshock therapy” (The New York Times) and has ...