Gross, Martin L.  1925-2013. <br/><br/>
The conspiracy of ignorance :  the failure of American public schools / 
Martin L. Gross. 
 - 1st Perennial ed. 2000. 
 - New York :  HarperCollins,  2000, c1952. 
 - x, 307 p. ;  20 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-276) and index. 
<br/><br/>An indictment of the education establishment : the decline of teaching and learning -- A tale of American student failure : domestic ignorance and international embarrassment -- The making of a modern teacher : weak selection and a "Mickey Mouse" education -- The debased reading curriculum : whatever happened to phonics? -- Licensing and certification of teachers : a nationwide sham -- The debased general curriculum : whatever happened to geography and trigonometry? -- The psychologized classroom : counseling, personality testing, and Dr. Freud -- Private, parachial, and charter schools : superior education and a matter of choice -- Alternate certification of teachers : competition from a brighter "untrained" cadre -- Middle school and high school : legions of abandoned minds -- The teachers' unions : using schools as a political tool -- The establishment and the community : unscholarly administrators, weak school boards, and pliant PTAs -- Conclusion : how tof reform, rebuild, and regain our public schools. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0060932600 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Public schools--Evaluation.--United States<br/>School failure--United States.