Table of Contents for
EDUCATION IS DEAD
(Contents are subject to change.)
Preface
About the Author
PART ONE: WHAT’S THE PROBLEM?
“This Is Chapter One.”
1. The REAL Chapter One: The Politics of Education
1a. Dangerous Teachings
2. Can America Last?
2a. The Death Of College Education
2b. What Is An Educated Student?
3. A Nation At Risk
3A. Comments On Test Scores And College Admissions
4. A Dangerous Road to Travel
5. The Canaries of Education
6. Nuclear Weapons
7. The Holocaust
8. Give Us More Studies!
9. Historical Revisionism
9a. An “Intellectual Plague”
10. The Confidence of Math
10a. Math: The SBAST
11. Cheating & Morality in Public Education
11a. More Math: Cheating Hurts Students
11b. A Saturday Class
12. What Is Free Enterprise?
13. Shouldn’t Voters Know How Their Own Government Works?
14. The Media: Do They Know Enough?
15. Immigrants and Education in America
16. What About Electives?
16a. The Magic of Chess
17. What Do Students Think? Part One
18. What Do Students Think? Part Two
19. “Higher” Education
19a. “I Have Tenure!”
19b. Stop Asking Questions!
19c. When Might Americans Not Be American?
19d. Do College Classes Promote Violence?
20. Critical Thinking?
21. Parents
21a. Threats Also Endanger Parents
21b. Does He Have A Gun?
22. Violence
22a. Bullying
23. Teachers & Teaching
24. Many Teachers Want To Give Up
25. What Are “Snowflakes?”
26. Many Students Have Difficult Lives
27. Helping Students
28. Are We Building Our Own Educational Coffins?
28a. Schools Teach Too Little, Too Slowly
29. Our Communities
29a. A School Community Hearing
30. Legislatures, Courts, and Discipline
31. Testing And Ignoring Warnings
32. God In Schools
33. The List
34. More About Money
PART TWO: CAN ANYTHING BE DONE?
35. Community Schools
36. What Options For Change Do We Have?
37. Educational Alternatives
37a.Homeschooling
37b. Comments On Military Training
38. What's The Bottom Line?
39. Can We Save Public Education?
APPENDIX: THE SBAST
Also By The Author
This book is intended for parents, educators, and those in policy positions.
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