Bad Students, Not Bad Schools (Hardcover)

Preface1 Introduction: A Nation at Risk or a Nation in Denial?2 Bad Students, Not Bad Schools3 Motivating Students or You Can Take a Horse to Water and Make a Dehydrated Equine Feel Better about Herself4 Closing the Racial Gap in Academic Achievement5 The "War" on Academic Excellence6 The Museum of Failed Educational Reforms7 Business-like Solutions to Academic Insufficiency8 The Alluring Choice Solution or Why Educating Students Is Not Manufacturing Cheap Flat Screen TVs9 Reforming Education Is the New Great Society and Why Fixing Schools May Well Subvert the Social Peace10 Hope?Works CitedIndex