Saving K-12: What Happened to Our Public Schools? How Do We Fix Them?

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By Bruce Deitrick Price ’63

Published Nov. 9, 2017

Public schools are a money pit, says Bruce Deitrick Price ’63, and education officials seem to prefer inefficiency and mediocrity. Saving K-12 (Anaphora Literary Press) explains how to create better schools at a lower cost, and covers everything from the Common Core to reading, math, as well as the historical background leading to our current state of affairs.

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