Why Johnny Still Cant Read or Write ..., Andrew Bernstein
Why Johnny Still Cant Read or Write ..., Andrew Bernstein
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Why Johnny Still Can't Read or Write or Understand Math
And What We Can Do About It

Author: Andrew Bernstein

Narrator: Christopher Grove

Unabridged: 6 hr 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 11/08/2022

Categories: Nonfiction, Education


Synopsis

The current school system churns out millions of illiterates and mental zombies—but here's how we're going to fix it, starting today.

Coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic, parents across the nation grapple with a new and horrifying understanding of just how bad our educational system has become. It all adds up to a system that seems hopelessly, terribly, and irrevocably broken. But as an educator and author, Andrew Bernstein reminds us that American education in the nineteenth through early-twentieth century was superb. This nation once knew how to turn out the brightest, most resourceful and independent-thinking people the world had ever seen. We can do it again.

About Andrew Bernstein

Andrew Bernstein holds a PhD in philosophy from the City University of New York. He has taught philosophy for many years in several New York-area colleges and universities. He went through the public school system K-12 in Brooklyn, New York, and has taught thousands of public high school graduates in his career. He has witnessed firsthand the decline of the American school system. He has been named "teacher of the year" at the State University of New York at Purchase and at Marymount College. He lectures across the country and around the world on a variety of topics related to education. He spent a year teaching at the American University of Bulgaria and witnessed the shocking truth that Bulgarian students very often mastered written English better than most American students.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Dwayne

Excellent review of where we are and where we COULD go if we had the will.......more

Goodreads review by Sam

Great perspective on education and what's wrong with the system. And what went wrong. Really influential in my view of how schooling should be constructed.......more

Goodreads review by Thomas

A rousing call to action.......more