About the Author
After a BA and MA in psychology from California State University at Los Angeles, Berliner received a PhD in Educational Psychology from Stanford University. He also was awarded a Doctorate of Humane Letters, Honoris Causa, from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

About this Book
Over the past decade a rising chorus of critics - from William Bennett to Allan Bloom - has decried the supposedly dire state of our public schools. Kids aren't learning what they should, violence and chaos reign in the classroom, and bureaucracy strangles attempts at reform. But how much of that grim image is really true?