Learning to Read in American Schools examines critical research that offers direct implications for the design and/or evaluation of text materials used in our s

David Labaree claims that by thinking of education primarily as the route to individual advancement, we are defining it as a private good - a means of gaining a

Discusses how school choice, misapplied standards of accountability, the No Child Left Behind mandate, and the use of a corporate model have all led to a declin

As a field, education has largely failed to learn from experience. Time after time, promising education reforms fall short of their goals and are abandoned as o

A step-by-step program that shows parents, simply and clearly, how to teach their child to read in just 20 minutes a day.