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Article: Big Cities Missing Out on Education Reform, Study Finds; Carnegie Foundation Says Urban Schools Often Dismissed as `Human Storehouses'
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- The Washington Post
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- March 16, 1988
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While recent education reforms have succeeded in many school
systems, they have largely bypassed big cities, leaving millions of
children in deteriorating urban schools, a prominent education
foundation charged yesterday.
In a bleak assessment of urban education, the Carnegie Foundation
for the Advancement of Teaching said as many as one-third of the
nation's 40 million schoolchildren are caught in schools that
continue to suffer from high dropout rates, low morale, aging
facilities and overregulation. Most of these children are black or
Hispanic.
"The failure to educate adequately urban children is a
shortcoming of such magnitude that many people have simply written
off city schools as ...