Etta Kralovec
February 2003
Etta Kralovec, a former teacher and education professor, has a new book arguing that U.S. schools waste time and money on non-essentials (e.g., sports, dental health) and should radically refocus their budgets and energies on teaching and learning academics. She's probably right about most of this, though her continuing campaign against homework probably isn't. The book argues for an ambitious form of "zero based budgeting" as the way to bring about this diminution of secondary roles and a renewed focus on schools' chief mission. The ISBN is 080703150, Beacon Press is the publisher and you can learn more at http://www.beacon.org/f02cat/Kralovec.html.
