Author Charles Murray has released his new book, “Real Education: Four simple Truths for Bringing America’s Schools Back to Reality,” just in time for September.

Murray wrote about the current state of the American education system last year in the Wall Street Journal. He said he felt that educators and politicians refused to face some simple truths about students and education, and that only by understanding reality can education change in a positive direction.

In this book, he expands on his critique of current American education and directions he feels the country ought to be headed in order to remain competition.

His “simple truths” follow four guidelines:

• that ability varies widely and that education shortchanges students when it refuses to acknowledge that;

• that half of the country’s children are below average and not smart enough to become proficient in reading and math and educators don’t know how to make them more competitive through special interventions;

• that too many people are going to college which degrades the worth of a bachelor’s degree and is not the right answer for all children’s success;

• and that education needs to spend more time pushing the academically gifted since they’re the ones who will lead this country.