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 [D�j� 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
*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