Knowledge Revolution for All Americans: Winning the War Against Ignorance : Empowering Public Schools

The Knowledge Revolution handbook provides leadership principles & tools that empower parents to be passionate advocates of quality education for each child. It focuses on public schools because they educate 90 percent of the American people. This reform report includes: * eight "cultural myths" about U.S. education that prevent national education reform; * an action plan to build responsible learning cultures in families & classrooms with the support of communities, business & government; * a sample grass-roots contract (Learning Improvement Contract or LIC) that defines expectations & responsibilities of students, parents, teachers, administrators & school board members; * an education investment strategy that ties funding to increasing student performance. Terrel Bell, former U.S. Secretary of Education, & Augustus Hawkins, former Chairman of the House Education & Labor Committee, are among the ten distinguished bipartisan signers. To order: Knowledge Network for All Americans; Tel. 1-800-736-4877.