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The Way to Save Our Schools
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
August 2007
On Sale: August 7, 2007
272 pages
ISBN: 0374294011
EAN: 9780374294014
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
An inspiring new vision for America's public schools from
one of the nation's top educators American fourth graders score twelfth in the world in math
skills, after Latvia and Hungary. Our eighth graders are
fifteenth, below Malaysia and Slovakia. And by the time
they’re fifteen years old, our students have slipped off the
map—to twenty-fourth place internationally. If these stats don’t make you angry or ashamed or plain sad,
then at the very least they should make you afraid. If
matters don’t change soon, tens of millions of our sons and
daughters will grow up unable to function—let alone
compete—in a global economy. And the impact of that on all
of us will be devastating. All is not lost, though, says Rudy Crew, who has headed some
of the largest and most daunting school systems in America.
Not by any means. Only Connect is a call for not just parents but the
entire nation to reconceive our relationship with public
education. If we’re to survive, we must place our schools at
the center of our communities and partner with them to
produce children with the full set of the tools they’ll
need—personal, civic, and occupational as well as
academic—to face the economic challenges that lie ahead.
Much like Thomas Friedman in The World Is Flat, Crew
shows us the reality of our schools in a new century, and
what we each must do to create the next generation of mature
and conscious contributors to society. From parents who
demand only the best from their children and their schools,
through our teachers and administrators, all the way to
Washington, D.C., everyone has a role in restoring American
education and America’s competitive edge.
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