{"product_id":"smart-kids-bad-schools-38-ways-to-save-americas-future-9780312587635","title":"Smart Kids, Bad Schools: 38 Ways to Save America's Future","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eSmart Kids, Bad Schools, \u003c\/i\u003e award-winning author and educator Brian Crosby draws on his twenty years as a high school English teacher to offer a candid appraisal of why our schools are failing and what we must do to save them. Crosby's no-holds-barred critique of the broken education system leaves no stone unturned: he is unapologetic and uncompromising in his expos  of how teachers, administrators, unions, and parents all play a part in this national tragedy. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCrosby offers 38 ideas to save America's future and his proposed remedies are revolutionary. He recommends bold measures, such as lengthening the school day and school year, forcing parents to volunteer at schools, abolishing homework, outlawing teachers unions, and cutting special education funding. The result is a book that is likely to inflame passions on all sides of the political spectrum, and, in the process, introduce new ideas to a debate that is in dire need of them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e St. Martin's Griffin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780312587635\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.63lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.52w x 0.81d","brand":"Brian Crosby","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40600948834485,"sku":"9780312587635","price":20.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_9978ae08-8c7b-4e10-bd5b-a64efa6b96f7.jpg?v=1627359519","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/smart-kids-bad-schools-38-ways-to-save-americas-future-9780312587635","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}