Our Public Schools: What's Wrong & How to Fix It

"Our Public Schools: What's Wrong & How to Fix It" is not a scholarly work for college professors or school administrators. It is a short, concise work written by a retired public school teacher for the average person. It identifies and explains the problems in our schools, how those problems arose, and what must now be done to return our schools to being what they once were - the best schools in the world.

"Our Public Schools: What's Wrong & How to Fix It" is a short and concise guide that addresses the fundamental issues that affect our schools today. This is a must-read for parents, grand-parents, aunts, uncles, and anyone who loves and cares for children and who wants the best for them now and in the world which they will inherit. This is not a scholarly work. Rather, it is a conversational and informative guide written by a retired public school teacher for the average person to use to identify and understand the problems that plague our schools. The author covers how and why those problems arose, and what must now be done to return our schools to the point where they once were - simply the best education institutions in the world.

Darrell L. Horton was born in the late 1940s and educated in public schools in the 1950s & early 1960s. He is a parent, and holds bachelor and master degrees in education. He started teaching in 1971. He has taught every grade, K through 12, and spent the last 20 years before retirement as a K-6 specialist teacher in one of the United States' largest school districts.