Dumbing Down Our Kids : Why American Children Feel Good about Themselves but Can't Read, Write, or Add

From the author of A Nation of Victims and Profscam comes a searing indictment of our nation's secondary schools and how they cheat our children. Sykes offers a full-scale investigation of the latest trend in schooling--sometimes called Outcome-Based Education--the most recent and most potentially shocking decline in the basic skills of American students.