How To Fix Public Education — Spinning Wheels !
How-to books in education appear frdequently — whether by educators, journalists, parents or professors. But, it seems little benefit or improvement has been seen. Do YOU know of any book that has had "How-to" advice that made a difference? ANY book, even without the how-to's, made improvements ? ? ?
Magically, by reading a book, you will be able to help students in school. Or so we’re told. Here are a few such books. Historically, what ever happened to their message — and the authors? Many authors have been silenced, dismissed, discredited or ignored. (A yet unwritten story of how education critics are squelched !)
- Why Johnny Can’t Read, and what you can do about it, Rudolf Flesch, 1955
- The Literacy Hoax, the decline of reading, writing, and learning in the public schools and what we can do about it, Paul Copperman, 1980
- How To Fix What’s Wrong With our Schools — A Toolkit for Concerned Parents, Bertha Davis, Dorothy Arnof, 1983
- School’s Out, The catastrophe in public education and what we can do about it, Andrew Nikiforuk, 1993
- Beyond the Classroom – Why School Reform Has Failed and What Parents Need to Do, Laurence Steinberg, 1996
- Why Our Children Can't Read and What We Can Do About It, Diane McGuiness, 1998
- How to Get the Right Education For Your Child, Malkin Dare, 1998
- Readicide: How Schools Are Killing Reading and What You Can Do About It, Kelly Gallagher, 2009\
- Stop Beating the Dead Horse, Why the System of public education in the United States has Failed and What to do About it, Julie L. Casey, 2010
- What's Wrong with Our Schools: and How We Can Fix Them, Michael Zwaagstra, 2010
- Betrayed, how the education establishment has betrayed America and what you can do about it, Laurie H Rogers, 2010
- Teacher Proof: Why research in education doesn't always mean what it claims, and what you can do about it, Tom Bennett, 2013
- Raising Kids who READ, What Parents and Teachers Can do, Daniel T Willingham, 2015
- How to Fix What’s Wrong with our Schools A Toolkit for Concerned Parents, Davis Arnhof, 1983
- Below C Level: How American Education Encourages Mediocrity -‐ and What We Can Do About It , Merrow, John, 2010
- Teachers versus the Public: What Americans Think about Schools and How to Fix Them by Paul E. Peterson, 2014
- Straight Talk to Parents: How You Can Help Your Child Get The Best Out Of School, Mary Susan Miller, Samm Sinclair Baker, 1976
- School on Trial, how freedom and creativity can fix our educational malpractice, Nikhil Goyal, 2016
- Making School Work, an education handbook for students, parents and professionals, Massachusetts Advocacy Center and Mass Law Reform Institute, 1975
- Loving Learning, how progressive education can save America’s schools, Tom Little, Katherine Ellison, 2015
- Language At The Speed Of Sight: How we read, why so many can’t, and what can be done about it, Mark Seidenberg, 2017