Gross, Martin L <br/><br/>
The conspiracy of ignorance :  The failure of american public schools / 
Martin L. Gross 
 - New York :  Harper Collins Publishers,  1999       
 - x, 291 p. 
<br/><br/> An indictment of the education establishment, 1. -- A tale of American student failure, 16. -- The making of a modern teacher, 39. -- The debased reading curriculum, 71. -- Licensing and certification of teachers, 90. -- The debased general curriculum, 104. -- The psychologized classroom, 129. -- Private, parochial and charter schools, 149. -- Alternate certification of teachers, 175. -- Middle school and high school, 185. -- The teachers' unions, 211. -- The establishment and the community, 226 
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>LA 217.2 G878c 1999