Reviews
"I would take this opportunity to thank you for sending me Custom Maid for New World Disorder. I appreciate your thoughtfulness. I wish you all of the best in your future endeavors."
Barack Obama
United States Senator
November 5, 2007
Custom Maid Spin
"Radical ideas. de Krassel is committed to a great cause and a very significant mission." Richard Carswell, Author of "From Success to Significance" and "The Ultimate Selling Secret."
Education Crisis in the U.S.
What Parents & Teachers Should Know About Education Today
Author Peter de Krassel tackles the shortcomings of the U.S. education system in his new book "Custom Maid Knowledge".
Standardized Testing
de Krassel feels that standardized tests are a major problem, because in evaluating students they require cookie cutter answers and responses rather than inviting open discussion that leads to creative thinking. He also believes that reading should never be done alone, but should incorporate discussions with others who have read the same book, which can yield the full measure of understanding.
He reveals that 25% of high school students in America did not realize that the Pacific Ocean separates North America from Asia. 50% of all adults incorrectly identified Vietnam as an island.
Unhealthy Students
de Krassel takes a firm stance in believing that legislators and school officials do not realize the relationship between eating a proper meal and learning. He cites that some low-income children arrive at school hungry, or when they do eat, the meal is unhealthy. And the decline in funding for state education forced many schools to focus more on generating revenue while child nutrition sat on the back burner. Pizza Hut, Coca-Cola, and McDonald's are the corporations administrators turned to when supplying the cafeterias.
de Krassel does point out some good news, which is that most soft drinks will be banned from nearly every primary and secondary school in the U.S. by 2010. And Texas is demanding that cafeterias cut down on trans fats and are offering more fresh fruits and vegetables.
No Child Left Behind
de Krassel goes into length about this issue and says that early tests that measured the success of No Child Left Behind showed that students excelled in their test scores because the grading standard was lowered. This was done to meet federal requirements to ensure continued funding. He feels many schools were right to abandon this program because teachers and parents have objected it after realizing that students were learning less due to the lower standards.
Excerpt From The Book:
"A sad commentary of the U.S. education system was an e-mail of test questions and answers from schools in Huntsville, Alabama.
Q: Name the four seasons.
A: Salt, pepper, mustard, and vinegar.
Q: What is a Hindu?
A: It lays eggs.
Q: What is a seizure?
A: A Roman emperor."
Peter de Krassel is an author, political activist, university professor, and has been featured on CNN as an expert in world politics. Custom Maid Knowledge: for New World Disorder [CAL Books, 2007] is book two in a trilogy that deals with globalism, corrupt politicians, world currency, the education system, and the rise of China.
The copyright of the article Education Crisis in the U.S. in Educational Issues is owned by Joe Lam. Permission to republish Education Crisis in the U.S. in print or online must be granted by the author in writing.
Custom Maid for New World Disorder
Political Dust Storms, Corrosive Money and Slick Oil
By Peter G. de Krassel
"This book is dynamite. One of the best I've read. I learned a lot from it. Each page is pure dynamite. I couldn't put it down." Erskine Overnight, USA Radio Network
"A guy after my own heart! A book I urge you to read."
Gary Sutton, WSBA, York, PA
"The book conjures up visions in my head, to use a Native American saying, of American politicians speaking with fork tongue".
Phil Fink, WELW, Cleveland, Ohio
"The book protests our dependence and reliance on Middle East oil and encourages conservation and alternative environmentally friendly sources of energy".
Bill Mazer, WVOX, New Rochele, New York
"de Krassel documents the social, political and cultural ills affecting America".
Mary Jane Popp, KAHI and KSAC, Sacramento, California
"Chock full of information. Incredibly rich."
Ron Saxon, WNTI, Hackettstown, New Jersey
"A great book on how Americans can retake, remake, reshape & fix America."
John Nuzzo, WMBA, Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania
"A clarion call. A blockbuster."
Bill Bertenshaw, WOR, New York City
"A well reasoned critical look at American culture, media and political spin."
Jordan Rich, WBZ, Boston
"A manifesto on why the U.S. must re-orient and clean up it's act to survive, thrive and continue to guide guide."
Sybil Tonkonogy, WNTN, Newton, MA
"de Krassel provides a piercing and compelling snapshot of today's world taken with a wide angle lens. His penetrating observations of the shifting sands of our globe offer a snapshot of the future taken with a telephoto lens. It's an unsettling look at ourselves, seen through a mirror. A must read."
Zev Yaroslavsky
Supervisor, Third District
County of Los Angeles
" ... totally provocative but in the process, Peter highlights some conveniently forgotten home truths. An absorbing read ..."
C.P. Ho, Hong Kong member, Chinese Peoples' Consultative Committee
"Peter de Krassel is mad, but then he has a lot to be mad about. Some people channel aggression with a gun, but not Peter. Instead, he picked up his pen and wrote the kind of book that you talk back to. Custom Maid provides a response. My copy is full of notes in the margin, only a few of which say Amen, brother! I don't agree with everything in Custom Maid. The book hasn't changed my life. But, something in the back of my mind, where I can't quite put a finger on it say, '...yet'." - David O'Rear, Chief Economist, Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce.
"The FCC has found its own Michael Moore, no not the one who headed the World Trade Organization for a half term, but that gadfly of American politics, the author of Stupid White Men.
"de Krassel addresses the self destructive culture, sexual, religious and political hypocrisy in America today...the U.S. presidential election sets the stage for America to seriously rethink and restructure its domestic and geopolitical policies."
Xia Wenhui, Xinhua News Agency
