Broken: The Story of Public Education in America

Few argue with the idea that our public school system is broken or understand why it's failing or how we ended up in our current educational predicament. In an easy-going, personable style, Broken takes the reader through a brief history of public education in the United States that demonstrates how and why a mid-19th century Prussian model is ill-equipped to cope with the dynamic 21st-century technological world.

Part 1: The Machine

What components work in unison to create the powerful beast...