Last Chance for Our Children: How You Can Help Save Our Schools
- ISBN-10
- 0201126443
- ISBN-13
- 9780201126440
- Category
- Education / General
- Pages
- 230
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1985
- Publisher
- Addison-Wesley Publishing Company
- Author
- Bill Honig
Description
A prominent educator explains what is needed in education today and lays out a practical agenda for making our schools work so that every student is challenged to perform to the best of his or her abilities
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