The Elephant in the Classroom: How Our Fear of the Truth Hurts Kids and How Every Student Can Succeed

What Would True Educational Reform Accomplish?

•world-class achievement test scores
•fewer discipline problems and less drug use
•an end to failing and dropouts
•reduction in community crime
•no more teaching to the test
•lowered incidence of attention deficit disorder
•three year university graduation

Too good to be true?

This scientific and non-political analysis doesn’t criticize school boards, teachers unions, administrators, parents, students, vouchers or charter schools. No, the problem is in the system itself.