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Author : Charles J. Sykes
Release : 1995
Genre : Education
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 232/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Dumbing Down Our Kids by : Charles J. Sykes
Download or read book Dumbing Down Our Kids written by Charles J. Sykes. This book was released on 1995. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sykes concludes with a checklist for parents, students, and teachers who want to evaluate their schools, and a series of recommendations to restore quality learning to America.
Author : Charles J. Sykes
Release : 1995
Genre : Education
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 747/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Dumbing Down Our Kids by : Charles J. Sykes
Download or read book Dumbing Down Our Kids written by Charles J. Sykes. This book was released on 1995. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers an expose of American public education, charging that faddish educational theories and the drive to inflate students' self-esteem are causing standards to decline
Author : John Taylor Gatto
Release : 2002-02-01
Genre : Education
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 013/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Dumbing Us Down by : John Taylor Gatto
Download or read book Dumbing Us Down written by John Taylor Gatto. This book was released on 2002-02-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With over 70,000 copies of the first edition in print, this radical treatise on public education has been a New Society Publishers’ bestseller for 10 years! Thirty years in New York City’s public schools led John Gatto to the sad conclusion that compulsory schooling does little but teach young people to follow orders like cogs in an industrial machine. This second edition describes the wide-spread impact of the book and Gatto’s "guerrilla teaching." John Gatto has been a teacher for 30 years and is a recipient of the New York State Teacher of the Year award. His other titles include A Different Kind of Teacher (Berkeley Hills Books, 2001) and The Underground History of American Education (Oxford Village Press, 2000).
Author : Charles J. Sykes
Release : 2007-08-21
Genre : Family & Relationships
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 278/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis 50 Rules Kids Won't Learn in School by : Charles J. Sykes
Download or read book 50 Rules Kids Won't Learn in School written by Charles J. Sykes. This book was released on 2007-08-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles J. Sykes offers fifty life lessons not included in the self-esteem-laden, reality-light curriculum of most schools. Here are truths about what kids will encounter in the world post-schooling, and ideas for how parents can reclaim lost ground---not with pep talks and touchy-feely negotiations, but with honesty and respect. Sykes's rules are frank, funny, and tough minded, including: #1 Life is not fair. Get used to it. #7 If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure, so he tends to be a bit edgier. When you screw up, he's not going to ask you how you FEEL about it. #15 Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had a different word for burger flipping. They called it "opportunity." #42 Change the oil. #43 Don't let the success of others depress you. #48 Tell yourself the story of your life. Have a point. Each rule is explored with wise, pithy examples that parents, grandparents, and teachers can use to help children help themselves succeed---in school and out of it. A few rules kids won't learn in school: #9 Your school may have done away with winners and losers. Life hasn't. #14 Looking like a slut does not empower you. #29 Learn to deal with hypocrisy. #32 Television is not real life. #38 Look people in the eye when you meet them. #47 You are not perfect, and you don't have to be. #50 Enjoy this while you can.
Author : James R. Delisle
Release : 2021-09-03
Genre : Education
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 273/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Dumbing Down America by : James R. Delisle
Download or read book Dumbing Down America written by James R. Delisle. This book was released on 2021-09-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a time when the U.S. education system consistently lags behind its international peers, Dumbing Down America shows exactly why America can't keep up by providing a critical look at the nation's schools through the eyes of the children whose minds are languishing in countless classrooms. Filled with specific examples of how gifted children are being shortchanged by a nation that believes smart kids will succeed on their own, Dumbing Down America packs a powerful message: If we want our nation to prosper, we must pay attention to its most intelligent youth. With more than 35 years of experience working with and for gifted children, author James R. Delisle provides a template of what can and must happen in America's schools if they are to fulfill their mission of educating every child to the fullest potential. Dumbing Down America is a must-read for any individual who believes that the unfulfilled promises to gifted children must begin to be met in America's schools today, not someday.
