We Must Take Charge!

Name: We Must Take Charge!
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ISBN: 9780029102763

ISBN-10: 0029102766

ISBN-13: 9780029102763

Edition: 1993

Authors: Chester E. Finn

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Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: Free Press
Publication date: 3/1/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Reform Is Not Enough



A Nation Still At Risk



Asleep at the Wheel: A Society Loses Its Mind



Schooling in a No-Fault Culture



Band-Aids for Battle Wounds: Reforms of the 1980s



Educational Perestroika



American Education Is to Education What the Soviet Economy Is to Economy



"How About a Marshall Plan for the Schools?" and Other Talk-Show Explanations of Educational Meltdown



The Lake Wobegon Effect: Ignorance Is Someone Else's Problem



Rational Fools: What's in It for Me?



Journey Without a Destination



A System Without Accountability



The War on Testing: A Dead Messenger Brings No Bad News



Paralyzed by Design?



Bad Ideas Whose Time Has Come



Taking Charge: Revolutionizing Education from the Outside In



A New Constitution for American Education



Schools Where Learning Matters: A Guided Tour



All the Children: Ten Tentative Truths



A Four-Front War


Notes


Index