Improving education in the US [electronic resource] : a political paradox / Rafael Yanushevsky.

Foreword
Chapter 1. The Wealth of a Nation
Chapter 2. The Founding Fathers and the History of Public Education
Chapter 3. Destiny's Child
Chapter 4. How the US Education System Works
Chapter 5. Education and Politics
Chapter 6. I Learn Therefore I Am
Chapter 7. Climbing To the Top
Chapter 8. Teach the Teacher
Chapter 9. A Parent's Job is Never Done
Chapter 10. Public Versus Private
Chapter 11. Charting the Way for Charter Schools
Chapter 12. System Approach to Educational Problems
Chapter 13. Improving the System of Higher Education
Chapter 14. Money Makes the World Go Around
Appendix 1. Post-World War II American Nobel Prize Laureates
Appendix 2. A Hypothetical Curriculum for Basic Subjects
Afterword
Index.