Real Education : Four Simple Truths for Bringing America's Schools Back to Reality

Murray, Charles

ISBN 10: 0307405389 / ISBN 13: 9780307405388

Published by Crown Publishing Group, The, 2008

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Real Education : Four Simple Truths for Bringing America's Schools Back to Reality
• Publisher: Crown Publishing Group, The
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0307405389
• ISBN 13: 9780307405388
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

\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.