The End of the Rainbow: How Educating for Happiness (Not Money) Would Transform Our Schools

"In this startlingly timely book on education in the United States, Susan Engel critiques the current monetized version of 'return on investment.'" ―Howard Gardner, Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education

Amid the hype of Race to the Top, online experiments such as Khan Academy, and bestselling books like The Sandbox Investment, we seem to have drawn a line that leads from nursery school along a purely economic route, with money as the final stop. But...