Failing our kids

"Drawing on the latest research and using examples from across the country and the United States, Charles Ungerleider describes what's right and what's wrong with our public school system and provides solutions for making it a lot better. He looks at the conflict between "traditional" and "progressive" approaches to education. He argues that the public school curriculum has become bloated, fragmented, and mired in trivia. He examines the effects of the changing family and the influence on children of television, the Internet, videogames, and their peers. He discusses the work of teachers and teachers' unions, the changes in public school finance and governance, and the issue of accountability. And he takes on school choice and competition, where, more than anywhere else, rhetoric prevails over reason."--Book jacket.