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  • Why Johnny Still Can't Read or Write or Understand Math

  • And What We Can Do About It
  • By: Andrew Bernstein
  • Narrated by: Christopher Grove
  • Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
  • 5.0 out of 5 stars (5 ratings)

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Why Johnny Still Can't Read or Write or Understand Math

By: Andrew Bernstein
Narrated by: Christopher Grove
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The current school system churns out millions of illiterates and mental zombies—but here's how we're going to fix it, starting today.

Coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic, parents across the nation grapple with a new and horrifying understanding of just how bad our educational system has become. It all adds up to a system that seems hopelessly, terribly, and irrevocably broken. But as an educator and author, Andrew Bernstein reminds us that American education in the nineteenth through early-twentieth century was superb. This nation once knew how to turn out the brightest, most resourceful and independent-thinking people the world had ever seen. We can do it again.

©2022 Andrew Bernstein (P)2022 Tantor
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A devastating critique of American education

Dr. Bernstein offers a lot of statistics and anecdotes (many from his experience teaching college students) that illustrate the mentally crippling effects of American progressive education. While he makes a compelling case for (1) why government schools inevitably have perverse incentives and (2) why the American educational monolith is obstinately oppposed to philosophical change, the author does offer some solutions to desperate parents.

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Very informative and well thought out.

Great narrator! This book should be promoted at every parent meeting and shared with our political leaders.

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