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035			_a(Sirsi) i9780060932602
035			_a(Sirsi) i9780060932602
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090			_aLA 217.2 .G76 2000x
100	1		_aGross, Martin L. _q(Martin Louis), _d1925-2013.
245	1	4	_aThe conspiracy of ignorance : _bthe failure of American public schools / _cMartin L. Gross.
250			_a1st Perennial ed. 2000.
260			_aNew York : _bHarperCollins, _c2000, c1952.
300			_ax, 307 p. ; _c20 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 255-276) and index.
505	0		_aAn 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.
650		0	_aPublic schools _zUnited States _xEvaluation.
650		0	_aSchool failure _zUnited States.
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