Education Myths: What Special Interest Groups Want You to Believe About Our Schools--And Why It Isn't So (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of Education Myths: What Special Interest Groups Want You to Believe About Our Schools--And Why It Isn't So Saturday, August 1 2009.

• How can we fix America's floundering public schools? Conventional wisdom says that schools and teachers need a lot more money, that poor and immigrant children can't do as well as most American kids, that high-stakes tests just produce teaching to the test, and that vouchers do little to help students while undermining our democracy. But what if the conventional wisdom is wrong? Jay Greene provocatively shows that much of what people believe about education policy is little more than a series of myths advanced by the special interest groups dominating public education.

Shelfari edited the contributors of Education Myths: What Special Interest Groups Want You to Believe About Our Schools--And Why It Isn't So Friday, July 24 2009.

• Added a contributor: Jay P. Greene: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of Education Myths: What Special Interest Groups Want You to Believe About Our Schools--And Why It Isn't So Friday, July 17 2009.

• If people know anything about public schools, it's that they are strapped for cash and would perform significantly better if only they had more money.