Studied Ignorance: How Curricular Censorship and Textbook Selection Are Dumbing Down American Education: How Curricular Censorship and Textbook Selection Are Dumbing Down American Education

Under the definition of "failure" specified in the No Child Left Behind Act, more than 80 percent of American schools could currently be labeled as failing, while the quality of American education overall and our students' performance continue to rank unfavorably against international competition. This book examines the crisis in American education and identifies how weaknesses in textbooks, teaching, and testing have created the crisis facing American education—a topic that dramatically af...