Cheating Our Kids
Subtitle: How Politics and Greed Ruin Education
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: September 15, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781403968395
Subjects: Public Policy - Social Policy; United States; Politics and education; Government - U.S. Government; Political Science; Education / Teaching; School failure; Politics/International Relations; Public schools; Educational Policy & Reform; Political Science / Social Policy; Education; Political aspects
Description: A critical exposé of how politics and special interests are compromising the American educational system reveals how parents can use consumer power to safeguard their children's interests, in a call to action that argues for increased accountability, school leader competence, and a reduction in union and bureaucrat decision-making powers.