Inside American Education by Thomas Sowell

Inside American Education by Thomas Sowell

Our educational establishment - a vast tax-supported empire existing quasi-independently within American society - is morally and intellectually bankrupt, charges distinguished economist and social critic Thomas Sowell. And in this top-to-bottom tour of the mismanaged institutions, cynical leadership, and tendentious programs of American education, Sowell exposes the numerous deceptions and dogmas that have concealed or sought to justify the steep and very dangerous decline in our educational standards and practices across the board. Among the more serious ills of American education are the technically sophisticated brainwashing techniques now being applied to children and teenagers in so-called affective education programs; the special peace and nuclear education programs that actively promote politically correct attitudes; the values clarification and sex education curricula that portray parental and religious authority figures as agents of a repressive and unjust social and political orthodoxy; and the racial mini-establishments created on college campuses by minority demagogues and complaisant administrators that enshrine a self-serving ideological double standard, thus betraying the real interests of minority students. Sowell's exhaustively researched investigation draws particular attention to the wide array of textbooks and other instructional materials, promoted with astonishing success by a multi-million dollar industry styling itself a secular humanist movement, which fosters these ideas - ideas that are not just anti-American, Sowell maintains, but essentially totalitarian in character. These sinister curricular developments, combined with often cowardly andirresponsible management more concerned about institutional image and ranking than with fiscal integrity or a commitment to educate our youth, will breed disaster unless immediate steps are taken to reform the entire educational system.

At Stanford University's Hoover Institution, Thomas Sowell is the Rose and Milton Friedman Senior Fellow on Public Policy. Basic Economics, Late Talking Children, and Race and Culture are some of his published works. He has also written for Newsweek, Forbes, the Wall Street Journal, and the 150 newspapers that carry his nationally syndicated column, among other publications.

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ISBN 13	9780743254083
ISBN 10	0743254082
Title	Inside American Education
Author	Thomas Sowell
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Free Press
Year published	2003-03-14
Number of pages	384
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