The War Against Hope: How Teachers' Unions Hurt Children, Hinder Teachers, and Endanger Public EducationHarperChristian + ORM, 16 févr. 2009 - 260 pages A former US Secretary of Education addresses the crisis in public schooling and the role teachers’ unions have played in its decline. Something is terribly wrong with America’s public-school system. For decades, we have seen test scores slide or stagnate—today, fewer than twenty percent of our nation’s twelfth graders are proficient in math, and our students rank near the bottom in science and math among the industrialized nations of the world—and achievement gaps persist or widen. So who’s responsible for the ongoing failure of our education system? In The War Against Hope, former Secretary of Education Rod Paige pulls no punches in his critical analysis of America’s crisis in the classroom. Without question, the greatest impediment to meaningful school reform is the enormous, self-aggrandizing power wielded by the teachers’ unions. In this vital, well-documented book, Paige takes an unflinching look at the power-hungry union leaders who have consistently placed their ambitions ahead of the needs of the teachers and the students whom they claim to serve. He also traces the history of the National Education Association (NEA) from its humble beginnings as an advocate of education excellence to its early radicalization by left-wing ideology. The War Against Hope is a disturbing account of the corruption, greed, and skewed values that have assaulted our schools, betrayed our teachers, and forsaken our children for far too long. |
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How Teachers' Unions Hurt Children, Hinder Teachers, and Endanger Public Education ... education / Rod Paige. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index ... America 07 08 09 10 QW 54321 2006039112 I dedicate this book to all of the ...
How Teachers' Unions Hurt Children, Hinder Teachers, and Endanger Public Education ... education / Rod Paige. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index ... America 07 08 09 10 QW 54321 2006039112 I dedicate this book to all of the ...
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How Teachers' Unions Hurt Children, Hinder Teachers, and Endanger Public Education Rod Paige ... school system doesn't improve : It more resembles the communist economy than our own market economy . -ALBERT SHANKER Former President , American ...
How Teachers' Unions Hurt Children, Hinder Teachers, and Endanger Public Education Rod Paige ... school system doesn't improve : It more resembles the communist economy than our own market economy . -ALBERT SHANKER Former President , American ...
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... School Success 131 8 Vision for the Future 153 9 What We Must Do 173 10 Reasons for Hope 189 Appendix A: Maxims of American Education (Lessons from Life in the Public Arena) Acknowledgments Notes 203 Index 223 201 197 45 PREFACE THE ...
... School Success 131 8 Vision for the Future 153 9 What We Must Do 173 10 Reasons for Hope 189 Appendix A: Maxims of American Education (Lessons from Life in the Public Arena) Acknowledgments Notes 203 Index 223 201 197 45 PREFACE THE ...
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... Education Conference. Foundation chairman Lowell Milken kicked off the conference with a fiery keynote address calling the audience's attention to America's education challenges and admonishing the crowd about the national need for new ...
... Education Conference. Foundation chairman Lowell Milken kicked off the conference with a fiery keynote address calling the audience's attention to America's education challenges and admonishing the crowd about the national need for new ...
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... education reform without even mentioning them . That in itself is a major statement about where we are in terms of improving America's ... school reform efforts , and what they need to do differently ? One possible explanation is that we have ...
... education reform without even mentioning them . That in itself is a major statement about where we are in terms of improving America's ... school reform efforts , and what they need to do differently ? One possible explanation is that we have ...
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