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Article: The third Bracey report on the condition of public education. (criticisms of public schools in mass media) (Cover Story)
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- Phi Delta Kappan
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- October 1, 1993
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In the "Second Bracey Report on the Condition of Public Education," I wrote: "We can now hope that the days of school-bashing are over."[1] Naive, was 1, and not forward looking either. While the departure of George Bush and his Department of Education appointees (the schools-are-for-knocking crowd) did indeed result in much less negative noise from the politicians, the media picked up the cudgels and banged the drum of failure with them. And had I but looked ahead a few months, I would have noticed looming on the horizon the cruelest month, an April that marked the 10th anniversary of "a rising tide of mediocrity." The 10th jubilee of the document I had called a ...
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... ... deeds done in the name of high-stakes testing. The beginning of the Schmidt and Ohanian stories were recounted in the 10th Bracey Report. They continue here. In addition to being a longtime teacher of English and journalism, Schmidt also publishes a muckraking ...
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