Table of Contents

Introduction                                                                                                                                                 1

Chapter One – Different but Equal                                                                                                         9

                Learning Disabled, Limited English Proficiency, Behavior and Emotionally

                Disabled and Academically Gifted – Legal Labels

Chapter Two – Duplicity:  More Labels and Lots of Lies                                                                      25

                Learning Styles & Multiple Intelligence Labels, Group Learning & Child-Centered

Learning and Class Averages & Failing Rates – Different but Equal [Déjà vu]

Chapter Three – Tests, Tests, Tests                                                                                                           49

                EOG/EOC, Competency Tests, Computer Skills Tests, Comprehensive Tests,

Writing Tests, PSAT/SAT & ACT, Exit Exams, etc., etc. – 100% Final Inspection

Chapter Four – Smoke and Mirrors – Et tu, NEA?!                                                                               72

                “Who controls the youth,….” – Adolf Hitler

Chapter Five – Closing the Gap                                                                                                           85

                “Ah, Douglass, we have fall’n on evil days” – Paul Laurence Dunbar

Chapter Six – Read, Write, READ                                                                                                         107         

Classical Education – Learning Without Experimental Teaching Strategies

Chapter Seven – At-Risk Students                                                                                                     130

                The Student Dropout Problem

Chapter Eight – Prole Production                                                                                                        138

                Ignorance is Strength – A Generation Shut Up in Mental Darkness

Chapter Nine – Students Behaving Badly                                                                                         156         

Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child….

Chapter Ten – At-Risk Teachers                                                                                                          181

                The Teacher Dropout Problem

*Chapter Eleven – Outsourcing Public Education                                                                          208         

Charter Schools, Private Schools, Christian Schools and Home Schools

*Chapter Twelve – Principals of Newspeak                                                                                      257

                “All we know of freedom….” – Rudyard Kipling

Addendum                                                                                                                                             290

                Research-Based and Field-Tested Glossary of Education Terms

Acknowledgements                                                                                                                              304

Works Cited                                                                                                                                            307