Author: Nancy Deville
Publisher: Barricade Book
Keywords: poisoning, america, dumbing, fattening, supermarket, death
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2007-08-01
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 1569803323
ISBN-13: 9781569803325

Although Americans worship youth and beauty, we are aging rapidly. Death by Supermarket makes a compelling case that the epidemic of obesity and degenerative and neurological diseases in the US is the result of a new form of malnutrition. Since World War II, factory produced food, diets, and drugs have caused a new type of malnutrition that manifests in obesity, depression, lowered IQ, disease

Author: John Taylor Gatto
Publisher: New Society Publishers
Keywords: schooling, compulsory, curriculum, hidden, dumbing
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2002-02-01
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0865714487
ISBN-13: 9780865714489

This radical treatise on public education has been a New Society Publishers’ bestseller for 10 years! Thirty years of award-winning teaching in New York City’s public schools led John Gatto to the sad conclusion that compulsory governmental schooling does little but teach young people to follow orders as cogs in the industrial machine. In celebration of the ten-year anniversary of Dumbing Us Down and to keep this classic current, we are renewing the cover art, adding new material about John and the impact of the book, and a new Foreword.

Author: John Taylor Gatto
Publisher: New Society Publishers
Keywords: schooling, compulsory, curriculum, hidden, dumbing
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2005-03-01
List price: $23.95
ISBN-10: 086571519X
ISBN-13: 9780865715196

A highly praised bestseller for over a decade, Dumbing Us Down is a radical treatise on public education that concludes that compulsory government schooling does little but teach young people to follow orders like cogs in a machine. This Special Collector’s Hardcover Edition celebrates 100,000 copies of the book in print, and the book’s on-going importance and popularity.John Gatto was a teacher in New York City’s public schools for over 30 years and is a recipient of the New York State Teacher of the Year award. A much-sought after speaker on education throughout North Ameri

Author: Marva J. Dawn
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Keywords: urgent, time, worship, theology, dumbing, reaching
Number of Pages: 316
Published: 1995-07
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 0802841023
ISBN-13: 9780802841025

Boomers vs. busters, clergy vs. laypeople, organists vs. guitarists---worship wars are tearing our churches apart! In this provocative book, Dawn calls us to more God-centered worship and away from the entertain me attitude. Youll learn practical ways to determine the best methods for deepening worship life, nurturing new and mature believers, and strengthening your ministry in the church and the world.

Author: Charles J. Sykes
Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin
Keywords: read, write, themselves, children, kids, american, dumbing
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 1996-09-15
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0312148232
ISBN-13: 9780312148232

Dumbing Down Our Kids is a searing indictment of America’s secondary schools-one that every parent and teacher should read.Dumbing Down Our Kids offers a full-scale investigation of the new educational fad, sometimes called "Outcome Based Education" -the latest in a long series of "reforms" that has eroded our schools.-Why our kids rank to, or at the bottom of international tests in math and science-Why "self-esteem" has supplanted grades and genuine achievements-How the educational establishment lowers standards and quality in our schools-while continuing to raise their budgets and our

Authors:Maureen Stout, Ph.D., Maureen Stout,
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Keywords: name, esteem, kids, america, dumbing, curriculum
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2001-01
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0738204358
ISBN-13: 9780738204352

The so-called self-esteem movement-a progressive, child-centered, discovery model of schooling-has transformed schools into therapeutic clinics and teachers into counselors, creating a generation of entitled, righteous, underachieving children. An insider’s account of the pernicious aspects of this seemingly well-meaning movement, The Feel-Good Curriculum provides devastating evidence that our belief in the power and importance of self-esteem in education is misplaced and without basis.Avoiding political posturing and political correctness, The Feel-Good Curriculum identifies the four sp