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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 theyβre fifteen years old, our students have slipped off the mapβto twenty-fourth place internationally. If these stats donβt make you angry or ashamed or plain sad, then at the very least they should make you afraid. If matters donβt change soon, tens of millions of our sons and daughters will grow up unable to functionβlet alone competeβin 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 weβre 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 theyβll needβpersonal, civic, and occupational as well as academicβto 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 Americaβs competitive edge.
 Media BuzzTalk of the Nation - August 30, 2007
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