How many parents know there are more than one "philosophy of education?" How many Americans know that it is impossible to obtain a licence to teach in the United States - anywhere - without adopting one - and only ONE - flavor of one school of thought - the emotively named "Progressive" model of experimentalism pushed by Dewey and his eugenics-promoting comrades. It is avowedly anti-American and, in fact, can hardly be described in English.
Gatto's book (online at the link above) however is not so focused on the boring techniques and dry and obscure work by Dewey. It starts with a comparison between how children are taught in the U.S. today with the education of young George Washington.
Gatto should be secretary of education, over the period that department is defunded and phased out.
BINGO!
The author of the article consistently fails to grasp that it is the education model that **causes** the problem. Only failure can arise from a single-payer, prison-like, and compulsory socialist entitlement that was the wet dream of the progressives of the 19th century.
I call it SS schooling ( single-payer and socialist-entitlement schooling)
If any child does manage to succeed it is in spite of his attendance at an SS school.