First Lessons: A Report on Elementary Education in America

Prepared by the former U.S. Secretary of Education & the Elementary Education Study Group. Covers: children, parents & the community of adults; our elementary schools: They teach us wonderful things (reading, writing, mathematics, science, social studies, the arts, foreign languages, health & physical education, computers, libraries): elementary school professionals; school policy (standards, resources, discipline, drugs, class size, kindergarten, the gifted child, textbooks, language-minority children); & in the schools. Extensive bibliography.