The Crisis in the Classroom

How the special needs explosion is destroying education

An urgent wake‑up call to the harm the needs explosion is doing to schools and our children, from someone with personal experience who can see the bigger picture. TIFFANY JENKINS, author of Strangers and Intimates

This is a brilliant, important, and timely book … For anyone concerned about the future of education, it is essential reading. STELLA O’MALLEY, author of What your teen is trying to tell you

Anyone who is seriously concerned with the problems confronting the education of young people must read this book. FRANK FUREDI, author of 100 Years of Identity Crisis

A sensible and sensitive discussion of the culture war over autism and ADHD, and its consequences for parents, teachers, and children with special educational needs. JENNIE BRISTOW, co-author of Growing Up in the Culture Wars

Clements’ sobering, thought-provoking book charts the rise of an educational and social crisis, the cultural and political forces driving it and the huge task facing those who want to deal with it. KATHRYN ECCLESTONE, co-author of The Dangerous Rise of Therapeutic Education

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