PUBLIC EDUCATION IN AMERICA - A FAILING GRADE

My guest this week is Mr Burr Deitz, a Liberty activist and critic of the American public education system. We will try to answer the following questions: are American students in public schools being deliberately dumbed down?; why are we teaching them how to read using 'whole language' instead of the historically  successful phonics?; why are 6 million American students on Ritalin?; should the US Dept of education be abolished?; do teacher unions and the NEA have too much power?; shoul\d we switch to vouchers and charter schools?; are schools being used to vacinate our children? why is there an attack on homeschoolers?; was John Dewey a socialist?; are we Indoctrinating our children rather than educating them? how do american students compare with student in other countries in math, science and reading?; are we spending too much time on social issues rather than the basics?,  and more................