"Saving Our Schools exposes the ugly side of President George Bush's "No Child Left Behind" mandate, which has threatened to close more than 6,000 public school

Praise for the First Edition: "Barr and Parrett have provided educators, policy makers, and parents with an outstanding resource. If you′re serious about leav

In this book Peterson interprets the history of American schools by placing major educational reformers in the context of their times and relates their thinking

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From grade school to graduate school, from the poorest public institutions to the most affluent private ones, our educational system is failing students. In his