What YOU Can Do To Fix Education — NOTHING !
Magically, by reading a book, you will be able to help your child in school. Or so you’re told.
Have you, as parent, been able to really, really help your child? Few have. Most haven’t.
Here are just 13 books that promise much:
1. Why Johnny Can’t Read, and what you can do about it, Rudolf Flesch, 1955
2. The Literacy Hoax, the decline of reading, writing, and learning in the public schools and what we can do about it, Paul Copperman, 1980
3. How To Fix What’s Wrong With our Schools — A Toolkit for Concerned Parents, Bertha Davis, Dorothy Arnof, 1983
4. School’s Out, The catastrophe in public education and what we can do about it, Andrew Nikiforuk, 1993
5. Beyond the Classroom – Why School Reform Has Failed and What Parents Need to Do, Laurence Steinberg, 1996
6. Why Our Children Can't Read and What We Can Do About It, Diane McGuiness, 1998
7. How to Get the Right Education For Your Child, Malkin Dare, 1998
8. Readicide: How Schools Are Killing Reading and What You Can Do About It, Kelly Gallagher, 2009
9. Stop Beating the Dead Horse, Why the System of public education in the United States has Failed and What to do About it, Julie L. Casey, 2010
10. What's Wrong with Our Schools: and How We Can Fix Them, Michael Zwaagstra, 2010
11. Betrayed, how the education establishment has betrayed America and what you can do about it, Laurie H Rogers, 2010
12. Teacher Proof: Why research in education doesn't always mean what it claims, and what you can do about it, Tom Bennett, Jul 12, 2013
13. Raising Kids who READ, What Parents and Teachers Can do, Daniel T Willingham, 2015