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Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
With over 70,000 copies of the first edition in print, this radical treatise on public education has been a New Society Publishers' bestseller for 10 years! Thirty years in New York City's public schools led John Gatto to the sad conclusion that compulsory schooling does little but teach young people to follow orders like cogs in an industrial machine. This second edition describes the wide-spread impact of the book and Gatto's "guerrilla teaching." John Gatto has been a teacher for 30 years and is a recipient of the New York State Teacher of the Year award. His other titles include A Different Kind of Teacher (Berkeley Hills Books, 2001) and The Underground History of American Education (Oxford Village Press, 2000). .
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Reaching Out Without Dumbing Down: A Theology of Worship for the Turn-of-the-Century Culture
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Death by Supermarket: The Fattening, Dumbing Down, and Poisoning of America
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
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Bad Or, the Dumbing of America
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The Feel-Good Curriculum: The Dumbing Down of America's Kids in the Name of Self-Esteem
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 specific effects of self-esteem's stranglehold on our schools-narcissism, emotivism, separatism, and cynicism. It prescribes antidotes to them-empathy, rationality and morality, connectedness, and skepticism-and offers a hopeful view of educational philosophy for the next millennium. Professor Stout urges us to replace our coddling, indulgent approach to building self-esteem in children with a sense of authentic self-confidence developed from intellectual, physical, and moral effort and achievement. .
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Dumbing Down: Essays on the Strip Mining of American Culture
Passionate observers across the political/intellectual spectrum confront the downward spiral of American life, art, and thought. With vigor, wit, learning, common sense, and urgency, twenty-three essayists--including John Simon, Cynthia Ozick, Phillip Lopate, George F. Kennan, Sven Birkerts, Joseph Epstein, and Brad Leithauser--examine aspects of our pan-cultural "dumbing down" and offer both diagnoses of and possible cures for this wasting disease..
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Dumbing Down Deer Hunting
When man arrived on the scen as a waling, talking, fire-building animal, he was programmed by biology to hunt and kill. the patern continued down through written history with hunting becoming less an occupation and more an enjoyable pastime governed by strict codes of conduct pass down proudly from generation to generation. Today, the use of bait and comfortable blinds has reduced hunting to the questionalbe "sport" of a fall shoot with complete disrgard for the dignity of deer and traditional hunting methods. "Dumging Down Deer Hunting is the story of how how that diaster occured..
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