Reclaiming Our Schools: Whose Kids Are They, Anyway?

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Summary: 'Reclaiming Our Schools' -- A Tool for Every Parent
Review: Dr. King's handbook, 'Reclaiming Our Schools,' is a must-read for EVERY parent - and, in fact, for every taxpayer. It's a basic human philosophy to do something "the way we've always done it." But parents, it's time we assume our responsibility for our children's education and self-esteem. Education must change for today's children to be properly prepared to lead our country and our world.

Who can't recall the person at the low-end of a school's achievement system? Maybe it was you, or maybe it's your child. What makes someone an "average" student? "Just being average is not success in anyone's view," Dr. King reminds his readers.

Even the nation's top students are not learning all they need to know. Dr. King points out that "as long as students are ranked against each other, the achievement of the group can drift lower and ... it gives parents a false sense of pride."

Dr. King's book offers an honest inspection of why any student would be classified according to others' achievements and suggests practical answers to helping your children achieve their personal best. Whether your child is taught in a public or private school system or at home, it will take each parent's contribution to be certain that your child is receiving the teaching they deserve and the instruction they need to lay a firm foundation for life.

Written in an easy-to-read manner, Reclaiming Our Schools examines the myths that lock our children into an unsatisfactory education and offers solutions to these myths. This book is a positive step toward ensuring a successful, appropriate education for each of America's children.

Rating:
Summary: 'Reclaiming Our Schools' -- A Tool for Every Parent
Review: Dr. King's handbook, 'Reclaiming Our Schools,' is a must-read for EVERY parent - and, in fact, for every taxpayer. It's a basic human philosophy to do something "the way we've always done it." But parents, it's time we assume our responsibility for our children's education and self-esteem. Education must change for today's children to be properly prepared to lead our country and our world.

Who can't recall the person at the low-end of a school's achievement system? Maybe it was you, or maybe it's your child. What makes someone an "average" student? "Just being average is not success in anyone's view," Dr. King reminds his readers.

Even the nation's top students are not learning all they need to know. Dr. King points out that "as long as students are ranked against each other, the achievement of the group can drift lower and ... it gives parents a false sense of pride."

Dr. King's book offers an honest inspection of why any student would be classified according to others' achievements and suggests practical answers to helping your children achieve their personal best. Whether your child is taught in a public or private school system or at home, it will take each parent's contribution to be certain that your child is receiving the teaching they deserve and the instruction they need to lay a firm foundation for life.

Written in an easy-to-read manner, Reclaiming Our Schools examines the myths that lock our children into an unsatisfactory education and offers solutions to these myths. This book is a positive step toward ensuring a successful, appropriate education for each of America's children.

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Summary: How come no one ever wrote this book before?!!!
Review: How refreshing that an educator has the courage to speak out about the appalling state of our education system in the United States! We hold every other highly skilled professional accountable for the results they produce: doctors, dentists, attorneys,etc. Why don't we demand any kind of accountability for our "educators?" It's time parents took back control and began to demand results! This book would be a very important guide to do just that! A highly recommended read!

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Summary: Reclaiming Our Schools--It's about time for a book like this
Review: This book is the book the NEA and the educational establishment doesn't want you to read!

The problem is clear--parents have lost touch with their schools, and children are not learning.

As current as today's headlines, Reclaiming Our Schools offers the cure. Written by an educator in everyday language, Reclaiming Our Schools is a guide to parents both dismayed by a public school system producing students scoring among the lowest of all industrialized nations and unsure of what to do about it.

For the concerned parent intimidated by the task of challenging an entrenched educatonal establishment, this book will serve as guide. Included are non-frontational questions for school administrators, both research and common sense challenging current educational practices, and a detailed examination of the myths driving them.

Schools following the steps described in this book soon have 90% of their students scoring as high as the top ten percent in schools who do not--results neither parents, nor schools can affod to ignore.

With this book as guide, parents can work closely with their school toward the common goal of helping children learn. It can be done! This book shows the way.

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Summary: At last! an easy to understand book about education!
Review: This is the book I've been waiting for. It gave me, a parent, the tools I needed to work with my school to get the education my kids needed.