Only Connect: The Way to Save Our Schools

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 ...