Colorado Parks & Wildlife Research Library

Provides a collection of essays that cover varying viewpoints on the subject of education in the United States, including such topics as tuition vouchers, character education, and standardized testing.

"Everyone agrees that we should graduate as many students as possible, as prepared for colleges and jobs as possible. We all want improved STEM and computer literacy. We're united in our belief that racial testing gaps need to be closed to create more opportunities for everyone. But there are billions of dollars spent every year to get Americans to give up on these shared goals. Why? Race to the Bottom is the first comprehensive expose of the way...

The authors discuss what they see as a plan to socialize the United States by knowingly and willingly dumbing down the population, one aspect of which is the Obama administration's plan to nationalize K-12 schooling with Common Core.

Raising Taylor, Finding Superwoman: The Difficult Choices Many Parents Find Hard to Make is about a single mother raising her daughter in today's competitive world. The Difficult Choices Many Parents Find Hard to Make does much more than that. It's an inspiring story for all parents and children to read and would enjoy.

Ten Commandments displays, prayer at football games, Bible in the curriculum, vouchers for tuition at religious schools, Pledge of Allegiance, wall of separation between church and state, among other hot button issues at the intersection of religion and education, generate a great deal of heat, but often light is sorely lacking. The Praeger Handbook of Religion and Education in the United States provides a unique source of light to educators, religious...

Presents a collection of essays offering varying viewpoints on the subject of religion in the public schools, covering such topics as teaching intelligent design, accommodating religious needs, and prayer in schools.

Published to coincide with the PBS special on public education, this collection of writings by the nation's most renowned historians of education chronicles the story of America's grand experiment in public education.

"The prize-winning PBS correspondent's provocative antidote to America's misguided approaches to K-12 school reform During his four-decade career at NPR and PBS, John Merrow reported from every state in the union, as well as from dozens of countries, on topics including America's obsession with standardized testing, the low standards of many teacher-training institutions, how corporate greed created an epidemic of attention deficit disorder, and Michelle...