Dr. Darlene Leiding is an expert in the realm of charter schools and alternative education and has created an elementary and high school alternative program. She has recently retired, but continues working with inner city students.

• Introduction Education: Reading, Writing, and FutilityChapter 1 Are Public Schools Hazardous to our Health? Heated Rhetoric and Force of Habit Inhibit ChangeChapter 2 School Culture: Whatever it TakesChapter 3 The Case Against Standardized Testing: Raising the Scores, Ruining the SchoolsChapter 4 A Tornado Brews: Who Will Save Children of Color?Chapter 5 ELL – Portrait of a Population: How English Language Learners are Putting Schools to the TestChapter 6 Dangerous Schools: When Will We Stop the Violence?Chapter 7 Children of Poverty: The Ongoing DebateChapter 8 Who Influences Education in America? Can Anyone?Chapter 9 New Trends in Education: Competition, Unemployment, Digital Devices and American EducationChapter 10 Future Trends in Education:Why Study the Future?Chapter 11 Results Matter: The Key to Saving American Education

As a parent, I have the highest regard for Darlene and her teaching strategies. Her latest book, Winds of Change, speaks volumes about her caring for the education of youth and how she used those strategies to help my daughter, Natosha, graduate from high school and move on to become a life-long learner.

Dr. Darlene Leiding is an expert in the realm of charter schools and alternative education and has created an elementary and high school alternative program. She has recently retired, but continues working with inner city students.

• Introduction Education: Reading, Writing, and FutilityChapter 1 Are Public Schools Hazardous to our Health? Heated Rhetoric and Force of Habit Inhibit ChangeChapter 2 School Culture: Whatever it TakesChapter 3 The Case Against Standardized Testing: Raising the Scores, Ruining the SchoolsChapter 4 A Tornado Brews: Who Will Save Children of Color?Chapter 5 ELL – Portrait of a Population: How English Language Learners are Putting Schools to the TestChapter 6 Dangerous Schools: When Will We Stop the Violence?Chapter 7 Children of Poverty: The Ongoing DebateChapter 8 Who Influences Education in America? Can Anyone?Chapter 9 New Trends in Education: Competition, Unemployment, Digital Devices and American EducationChapter 10 Future Trends in Education:Why Study the Future?Chapter 11 Results Matter: The Key to Saving American Education

As a parent, I have the highest regard for Darlene and her teaching strategies. Her latest book, Winds of Change, speaks volumes about her caring for the education of youth and how she used those strategies to help my daughter, Natosha, graduate from high school and move on to become a life-long learner.

Dr. Darlene Leiding is an expert in the realm of charter schools and alternative education and has created an elementary and high school alternative program. She has recently retired, but continues working with inner city students.

• Introduction Education: Reading, Writing, and FutilityChapter 1 Are Public Schools Hazardous to our Health? Heated Rhetoric and Force of Habit Inhibit ChangeChapter 2 School Culture: Whatever it TakesChapter 3 The Case Against Standardized Testing: Raising the Scores, Ruining the SchoolsChapter 4 A Tornado Brews: Who Will Save Children of Color?Chapter 5 ELL – Portrait of a Population: How English Language Learners are Putting Schools to the TestChapter 6 Dangerous Schools: When Will We Stop the Violence?Chapter 7 Children of Poverty: The Ongoing DebateChapter 8 Who Influences Education in America? Can Anyone?Chapter 9 New Trends in Education: Competition, Unemployment, Digital Devices and American EducationChapter 10 Future Trends in Education:Why Study the Future?Chapter 11 Results Matter: The Key to Saving American Education

As a parent, I have the highest regard for Darlene and her teaching strategies. Her latest book, Winds of Change, speaks volumes about her caring for the education of youth and how she used those strategies to help my daughter, Natosha, graduate from high school and move on to become a life-long learner.