The Abyss: The woeful state of the nation's public schools and how common sense can save them from ruin, by Dan D. Schinzel, Ed.D. The problems in the public school system are manifest and manifold. Mr. Schinzel puts his finger on the problems and puts forward intelligent common sense solutions designed to get America back on track as the best educated country in the world. This concise work is sure to be an engine for constructive change in the halls of America's schools.