Download or read book The Tragicomedy of Public Education written by James M. Kauffman and published by Attainment Company Inc. This book was released on 2011-02-17 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sad and almost comical ways in which our public schools functionThe tragedy is that our public schools work so poorly. The comedy is the off target comments about educational reform made by educators, business leaders, secretaries of education, presidents, and congress. Mathematical impossibilities, pompous postmodern pap, seemingly scholarly non-sequiturs, and lot of other nonsense give us much to laugh about.