TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sykes,Charles J.
TI  - Dumbing down our kids: why America's children feel good about themselves but can't read, write, or add 
SN  - 0312148232 (pbk.)
AV  - LA222 .S95 1996
U1  - 373.73 20
PY  - 1996///?]
CY  - New York
PB  - St. Martin's Griffin
KW  - Education, Secondary
KW  - United States
KW  - Evaluation
KW  - Academic achievement
KW  - Bildungsnotstand
KW  - swd
KW  - USA
N1  - Originally published: 1995; Includes bibliographical references (p. [298]-326) and index; Dumbing down America's kids. Scenes from the front: "Mere facts" -- Andrea's complaint -- Dumbing down our kids -- Losing the race -- Scenes from the front: An endangered species I -- The American way of denial -- Dumbing down our schools. Scenes from the front: How did Einstein feel? -- Feelings -- The religion of self-esteem -- Scenes from the front: The mission statement -- The attack on excellence -- Scenes from the front: Leaders and followers -- The making of an educationist -- Scenes from the front: "I wanted to be a teacher" -- The new illiteracy -- Why Johnny can't add, subtract, multiply, or divide (but still feels good about himself) -- Dumbing down the texts -- Scenes from the front: The political classroom I -- Dumbing down the tests -- Scenes from the front: The political classroom II -- Moral dumbing down. The "values" wasteland -- Telling on mommy and daddy -- Doctor, doctor -- The attack on learning. The attack on learning -- Scenes from the front: 1928 -- 1958 -- Educational wastelands -- Scenes from the front: Mold -- Reform and counterreform. The blob -- Outcome based education -- Goals 2000 and the counterreformation -- Scenes from the front: An endangered species II -- Schools that work -- Scenes from the front: Barclay -- The coming educational revolution
UR  - http://www.archive.org/details/dumbingdownourki00syke
UR  - http://www.openlibrary.org/books/OL984830M
ER  -