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Hardback – 144 pages
6 Inches × 9 Inches (w × h)

Weight: 400 Grams
BISAC: EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / General
Publisher: New Society Publishers
ISBN: 9780865715196
Pub. Date: 2005-03-01

About the Author

John Taylor Gatto is an internationally renowned speaker who lectures widely on school reform. He taught for 30 years in public schools before resigning on the op-ed pages of the Wall Street Journal during the year he was named New York State's official "Teacher of the Year." On April 3, 2008, the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard credited Mr. Gatto with adding the expression "dumbing us down" to the school debate worldwide.

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Dumbing Us Down

The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling

by John Gatto

A highly praised bestseller for over a decade, Dumbing Us Down is a radical treatise on public education that concludes that compulsory government schooling does little but teach young people to follow orders like cogs in a machine. This Special Collector's Edition celebrates 100,000 copies of the book in print, and the book's on-going importance and popularity.

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