TY - BOOK AU - Gross, Martin L TI - The conspiracy of ignorance: The failure of american public schools AV - LA 217.2 G878c 1999 PY - 1999/// CY - New York PB - Harper Collins Publishers N2 - An indictment of the education establishment, 1. -- A tale of American student failure, 16. -- The making of a modern teacher, 39. -- The debased reading curriculum, 71. -- Licensing and certification of teachers, 90. -- The debased general curriculum, 104. -- The psychologized classroom, 129. -- Private, parochial and charter schools, 149. -- Alternate certification of teachers, 175. -- Middle school and high school, 185. -- The teachers' unions, 211. -- The establishment and the community, 226 ER -