The history of education is also the history of shortterm solutions to deepseated educational problems. While programs like No Child Left Behind or Common Core Curriculum are wellintentioned they result in intense fragmentation of energy and resources in schools. A Critical Thinkeramprsquos Guide to Educational Fads critiques many current educational trends illuminating their underlying motivations and providing holistic sustainable solutions.Teachers school administrators and policy makers will find this book an eyeopening overview of education trends and fads and a refreshing outlook on future reform. As part of the Thinkeramprsquos Guide Library this book advances the mission of the Foundation for Critical Thinking to promote fairminded critical societies through cultivating essential intellectual abilities and virtues within every field of study across the world.