Laying Down the Law: Joe Clark's Strategy for Saving Our Schools

Laying Down the Law is Joe Clark's dramatic story of how he cleaned up Eastside High School in Paterson, New Jersey, and how his prescription for reform can be duplicated by parents and principals working together to clean up their own neighborhood schools. This is more than just one man's story of what needs to be done to reform our nation's schools. It is a call for people to care enough about their schools, their children, and our nation's future to act with the neces-sary resolution and vigor to stem the pernicious tide of permissiveness, crime, and academic decline that Americans have accepted for far too long.