The coauthor of The Bell Curve addresses serious problems with the American educational system and introduces four simple truths that parents and educators need to confront--Ability varies, Half of the children are below average, Too many people are going to college, and America's future depends on how we educate the gifted. 80,000 first printing.
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\CHARLES MURRAY is the author of two of the most widely debated and influential social policy books in the last three decades, Losing Ground: American Social Policy 1950–1980 and, with the late Richard J. Herrnstein, The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life. He is the W. H. Brady Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C.
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