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Article: Setting the Record Straight: Responses to Misconceptions About Public Education in the U.S.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
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- School Administrator
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- August 1, 2005
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Read any newspaper or magazine and you will undoubtedly find something that criticizes our public education system. In his second edition of Setting the Record Straight: Responses to Misconceptions About Public Education in the U.S., Gerald Bracey offers insightful analyses of some of the most common attacks from the public about our educational system.
Bracey's book covers a multitude of topics including charter schools, SAT scores, No Child Left Behind, vouchers and unfair comparisons of public and private schools. In each essay, Bracey, a longtime columnist in the monthly Phi Delta Kappan, offers a succinct rebuttal to each unfair or unsubstantiated statement ...