Reading

National Council on Teacher Quality "What Education Schools Aren't Teaching About Reading and What Elementary Teachers Aren't Learning" May 2006

Why Johnny Can't Read Rudolf Flesch 1955

Why Johnny STILL Can't Read Rudolf Flesch 1981

Retarding America Michael Brunner 1993

Inside the Secret Garden Tom Burkard 2007

Learning Difficulties Australia Bulletin, 38 (1), 15-16 "What Brain Research Can Tell Us About Reading Instruction" Kerry Hempenstall 2006

2003 National Assessment of Adult Literacy 

31 percent of the nation's college graduates scored at the proficient level. 

Math

National Council of Teachers of Mathematics 1989 report promoting calculators and estimation

You Tube Math Education: An Inconvenient Truth M. J. McDermott 2007

You Tube Math Education: A University View 2007

Science

"US Science Lessons Focus More on Activities, Less on Content" US Dept of Education- Results from the TIMSS 1999 Video Study

Teaching state test questions

Third Education Group Review Volume 1, 2005 No. 1

"Lake Wobegon, Twenty Years Later" John Jacob Cannell, MD

Increase in ability across the board-all groups

Rising Curve American Psychological Association edited by Ulrich Neisser 1998

Dumbing down of curriculum

"Developing America's Talent" US Dept of Education 1993

Lack of challenge resulting in diagnosis

ADHD Fraud Fred Baughman Jr., MD 2006

Growing Up Gifted Barbara Clark several editions

How schools hold back America's brightest students

A Nation Deceived  The Templeton National Report on Acceleration 2004

Why the middle class needs school choice

Not As Good As You Think Lance Izumi, Vicki Murray, Rachel Chaney 2007