Saving Our Schools: The Case For Public Education, Saying No to "No Child Left Behind" - Softcover

Shannon, Patrick; Goodman, Yetta; Rapoport, Roger

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9781571431028: Saving Our Schools: The Case For Public Education, Saying No to "No Child Left Behind"

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ISBN 10: 1571431020 ISBN 13: 9781571431028

Publisher: Rdr Books, 2004

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A stealth campaign to privatize American education, George Bush’s "No Child Left Behind" (NCLB) threatens to close more than 6,000 public schools, pushing dedicated teachers and disadvantaged children out of our neighborhood schools.

In Saving Our Schools, leading educators and researchers show how NCLB shifts control of every aspect of American public education to a faceless Washington bureaucracy while marginalizing successful methods, materials, teacher education, staff development programs, and curriculum. Saving Our Schools investigates the devastating results of forcing financially strapped schools to squander meager resources on highstakes standardized tests. It reveals how the government blacklists successful professors, institutions, methods, and materials that deviate from the NCLB party line. It exposes George Bush’s top education advisors who call National Education Association members "terrorists" and would like to "blow up" teachers’ colleges. A citizens’ call to unite in defense of public education, Saving Our Schools urges every American parent and teacher to take action now— before time runs out.

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More than 6,000 schools have been targeted for closing by No Child Left Behind. Thousands more will be added to the failing schools list by the Department of Education in August. This book shows the devastating impact No Child Left Behind is having on schools and communities across the nation. It shows how NCLB is systematically attempting to close public schools and turn America's treasured community schools into a third world system. Step by step the distinguished contributors show how communities from Alaska are fighting back to save our neighborhood schools.

From the Inside Flap:

Public Misinformation About NCLB
Ends on Page One of This Book

"We are engaged in an unprecedented war against children, teachers and schools. The contributors to Saving Our Schools are among the few who understand and know what to do about it. Saving Our Schools exposes what may be the most damaging action taken by the Bush administration: The war against children, teachers, and schools. Bush’s No Child Left Behind is not merely "underfunded." It is all wrong. It has the potential of ruining millions of lives and destroying the public education system. The contributors to Saving Our Schools are among the most distinguished scholars in the field of education in the world. They understand the dangers and know what to do about them"
—Stephen Krashen, Professor Emeritus
Rossier School of Education
University of Southern California

"Public misinformation about NCLB ends on page one of this book. This informative and incisive account of how NCLB came to be and why we must get rid of it will be the cornerstone of the resistance."
—Susan Ohanian, author of
Why is Corporate America Bashing Our Public Schools?

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