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Jan 05, 2004 | ISBN 9780807032510
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Praise
A thoroughgoing critique of how American schools operate: they start too early, they fragment the school day . . ., they focus too much time and energy on non-educational tasks like dental health and sports . . . The fundamental question about schools today, she writes, is not so much how to raise test scores but how to clarify, exactly, ‘what we value most.’ —New York Times
“Kralovec asks a simple question, but one with complex and profound implications . . . [She] is no back-to-basics ideologue . . . but she does care about learning . . . Kralovec’s succinct work should set the tone for conversations that administrators, school boards and politicians need to be having across the nation.” —Publishers Weekly
“Without bashing administrators and teachers, Kralovec . . . demonstrates that schools end up doing too little of what matters.” —Library Journal
“Kralovec assumes the gadfly role again by insisting that schools scale back or even eliminate activities that aren’t central to their educational mission.” —Teacher Magazine
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