Something dramatic must be done to create a huge and lasting improvement.

Chapter list


Part I: A Chronic Condition

  1. Contradictions and Paradoxes
  2. The Good Ol' Days
  3. The Nature of Kids
  4. A Call to Arms
  5. The "Experts" Strike Back
  6. Sirens of the Deep
  7. Few Caesars to Be Found
  8. The Caregivers
  9. The Child's Structure
  10. Fooling with Mother Nature
  11. Mindless Momentum
  12. A World of Change
  13. The Decline of Rome
  14. The SImplicity of the Problem


Part II: The Common Thread of Time

  1. First Impressions
  2. The Meat of the Subject
  3. The Big Mo
  4. The Skill, the Only Skill
  5. As Easy as ABC
  6. The Reading-Writing Connection
  7. Chicken Scratching
  8. I Before E
  9. Matter Over Mind
  10. Science is Doing
  11. The Three Musketeers
  12. Making Jack a Dull Boy
  13. Speeka dee English?
  14. Nerds and Technophobes
  15. An Ounce of Prevention
  16. Fertile Soil
  17. All the Time in the World