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Article: Danger: Bell curve ahead: Real Education: Four Simple Truths for Bringing America's Schools Back to Reality.(Book review)
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- January 1, 2009
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by Charles Murray. New York: Crown Forum, 2008.
When I was in my junior high-school play, one of the parents in the audience was overheard saying that there were only two things wrong with our performance: The curtain went up, and the seats faced the stage. Similarly, there are only two things wrong with Charles Murray's latest book: The logic is flawed, and the evidence is thin. Were it not for his claim that his earlier work (Losing Ground, 1984) changed the way the nation thought about welfare, there would be little reason to dignify the current polemic with a review in a magazine of the National Academy of Sciences. But on the off chance that Murray's ideas ...
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Article: OBIT - ALLISON, CHARLES MURRAY
Roanoke Times & World News;
October 2, 2005 ;
487 words
...Charles Murray Allison, 69, of Bedford, died Saturday, October 1, 2005, at ... Jane Allison Parker with Richard Hamlett of Roanoke, Virginia, Charles Murray Allison, Jr. and wife, Ann of Goode, Virginia, Kate Allison Hurst ...
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