Paul Wagner: 16 books

In the wake of initiatives such as No Child Left Behind and the use of high-stakes testing, the emphasis in schools has been on drill and practice for the test. Genuine understanding and critical thinking have been increasingly shortchanged. As a result, students have fewer opportunities to advance...

When one old man reaches out to another old man for help locating a missing child, it leads to the assemblage of three senior citizens who have almost nothing in common except the badges they carried long ago as Sacramento police detectives. Their leader is Beau Wolfer, an impoverished, over-sexed...