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Public education has failed Americans. Politicized and gutted by special interest groups, the nation's education system costs taxpayers $350 billion a year. The benefits reaped from this dubious investment? Millions of functionally illiterate high school graduates incapable of performing simple mathematical tasks without calculators. Education in Turmoil outlines the social, political, and educational costs of a broken education system. James De GrandPre explains how the Department of Education, far from being concerned with student education, instead pursues political goals, aided and abetted by the nation's largest union, the National Education Association. De GrandPre posits a revolutionary and controversial solution. The privatization of the national school system would encourage competition among schools, transforming a stagnating government-run quagmire into a thriving free-market business model. Privatized schools would be free to teach without the constraints of a monopolizing bureaucracy, which operates in violation of national anti-trust laws. Competition would force each school to strive for the best possible education while relieving taxpayers of an ever-increasing tax burden. Education in Turmoil provides a vision of a revitalized education system, should the American public seize the opportunity.

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James De GrandPre served in the Korean war as an airborne special forces combat infantry solider. A mining engineer who also earned a law degree, De GrandPre began working for DuPont as a project engineer in the explosives department. By his retirement in 1986, he was the corporation's marketing director. After 1986, De GrandPre shifted his attention to personnel consulting. While interviewing recent graduates from the best universities in America, he was shocked to discover their lack of basic writing and mathematical skills. Upon recommending none of the applicants be hired, De GrandPre discovered the company not only considered such applicants to be the norm, but required newly-hired engineers to complete a two-year remedial education course at full pay. Something had gone seriously wrong with the education system since De GrandPre's first job interview. His determination to find the source of this problem, and more importantly, suggest a solution, led to Education in Turmoil.

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