Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Teaching Approaches -- Progressive Education -- School Reforms Hinder Learning, Crusader Argues -- A Unique School or out of Step? -- Opposing Approaches so Johnny Can Read: Finding the Answers in Drills and Rigor -- The Schools They Deserve: Howard Gardner and the Remaking of Elite Education -- What Is an Educrat? -- Curriculum and Methods -- Developmental Appropriateness: Review - Years of Promise: A Comprehensive Learning Strategy for America's Children -- Science Friction -- Dictatorship of Virtue: Multiculturalism in Elementary and Secondary Schools -- Computers/Distance Learning -- Should Schools Be Wired to the Internet?: No-Learn First, Surf Later -- The Learning Revolution -- Direct Instruction, Explicit Teaching -- Effective Education Squelched -- Ability Grouping -- The Concept of Grouping in Gifted Education: In Search of Reality-Unraveling the Myths about Tracking, Ability Grouping, and the Gifted -- Whole School Reform -- Ready, Read! -- The Student -- Student Beliefs/Character Education -- Failure outside the Classroom -- Values, Views, or Virtues? -- Blame the Schools, not the Parents -- Goodbye to Sara and Benjamin? -- Social Promotion -- Student Customers Being Sold a Bad Product -- Why Johnny can't Fail: How the "Floating Standard" has Destroyed Public Education -- Parents and Teachers -- Parents -- The Parent Trap -- Teachers -- Who Teaches the Teachers? -- Why Johnny's Teacher can't Teach -- The Truth about Teacher Salaries and Student Achievement -- Why it's too Hard to Fire Bad Teachers -- How Teachers' Unions Handcuff Schools -- How Teachers should be Evaluated -- Put Teachers to the Test -- Top-Notch Teachers are Key to Better Schools -- School Unions Shortchange Students -- Educationally Disadvantaged -- A Taboo Erodes.

Loco, Completamente Loco: The Many Failures of "Bilingual Education" -- Defining Disability Down: Why Johnny Can't Read, Write, or Sit Still -- Why Ritalin Rules -- The Scandal of Special Ed -- Standards and Accountability -- Developing and Implementing Academic Standards: A Template for Legislative Reform -- The War against Testing -- Structuring Education -- Spending -- Making America's Schools Work -- Half of Choice Schools Spend Less than State Allots -- Money and School Performance: Lessons from the Kansas City Desegregation Experiments -- Vouchers -- Public Schools: Make Them Private -- School Choice: Beyond the Numbers -- Fighting for School Choice: It's a Civil Right -- Contracting out -- Whittling Away the Public School Monopoly -- A Private Solution -- Charter Schools -- Class Acts: How Charter Schools are Revamping Public Education in Arizona-And beyond -- Healthy Competition -- Class and School Size -- The Elixir of Class Size -- Where Everybody knows your Name -- Federal Aid to Education and the Poor -- Title I's 118 Billion Fails to Close Gap -- Home Schooling -- Special Ed: Factory-like Schooling may Soon be a Thing of the Past -- Private Schooling -- "Doing Something" in a Catholic School -- Index -- About the Editors.