The ninth Bracey report on the condition of public education

Phi Delta Kappan

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 147-168

  Bracey, Gerald W ^a  

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3. William L. Sanders, "Cumulative and Residual Effects of Teachers on Future Student Academic Achievement," available from http://www.mdk12.or/ practices/ensure/tva/tva_2.html. For an overview, see William L. Sanders, "Value-Added Assessment," School Administrator, December 1998, pp. 24-29. For more details, see "Graphical Summary of Educational Findings from TVAAS," available from http://www.shearonforschools.com/summary/ GRAPH-SUM.HTML.
4. William L. Sanders, "Cumulative and Residual Effects of Teachers on Future Student Academic Achievement," available from http://www.mdk12.or/ practices/ensure/tva/tva_2.html. For an overview, see William L. Sanders, "Value-Added Assessment," School Administrator, December 1998, pp. 24-29. For more details, see "Graphical Summary of Educational Findings from TVAAS," available from http://www.shearonforschools.com/summary/ GRAPH-SUM.HTML.
5. Blaine Worthen and Vicki Spanel, "Putting the Standardized Test Debate in Perspective," Educational Leadership, May 1991, p. 67.
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10. Richard Rothstein, Martin Carnoy, and Luis Benveniste, "What Can Public Schools Learn from the Private, Non-Profit Education Sector?," unpublished paper, Economic Policy Institute, Washington, D.C., 1999.
11. Anthony S. Bryk, Valerie E. Lee, and Peter B. Holland, Catholic Schools and the Common Good (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1993), p. 305.
12. Rothstein, Carnoy, and Benveniste, pp. 66-67.
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15. National Research Council, Grading the Nation's Report Card: Evaluating NAEP and Transforming the Assessment of Educational Progress (Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 1999), Executive Summary, p. 11.
16. Patrick J. McEwan and Martin Carnoy, "The Effectiveness and Efficiency of Private Schools in Chile's Voucher System," unpublished paper, Stanford University, 1999.
17. Martin Carnoy and Patrick McEwan, "Private-Public School Differences in Chile's Full Choice, Marketized Education System," unpublished paper, Stanford University, 1999.
18. June Kronholz, "Class Action: A Poor School District Learns to Cope in a Test Tube," Wall Street Journal, 11 September 1998, p. 1.
19. "Class Size Reduction in California: Early Evaluation Findings, 1996-1998," available from the Class Size Consortium, http://www.classize.org, June 1999.
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21. Cecilia E. Rouse, "Schools and Student Achievement: More Evidence from the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program," Federal Reserve Bank of New York Economic Policy Review, March 1998. The paper is available from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York website, www.ny.frb.org.
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24. Alex Molnar, Giving Kids the Business (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1996), p. 167.
25. Stuart Eskenazi, "Learning Curves," Houston Press, 22-28 July 1999. The set of articles is available from the Houston Press website at www.houstonpress.com/issues/1999-07-22/feature.html.
26. Eric Rofes, How Are School Districts Responding to Charter Laws and Charter Schools? (Berkeley: Policy Analysis for California Education, University of California, April 1998); Amy Stuart Wells et al., Beyond the Rhetoric of Charter School Reform: A Study of Ten California School Districts (Los Angeles: UCLA, 1998); The Findings and Implications of Increased Flexibility and Accountability: An Evaluation of Charter Schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District (San Francisco: West-Ed, 1998); Michigan's Charter School Initiative: From Theory to Practice (Lansing: Public Sector Consultants, February 1999); and Jerry Horn and Garon Miron, Evaluation of the Michigan Public School Academy Initiative, Final Report (Kalamazoo: The Evaluation Center, Western Michigan University, January 1999).
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31. Lynn Schnaiberg, "Firms Hoping to Turn Profit from Charters," Education Week, 10 December 1997, p. 14.
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33. Horn and Miron, p. 17.
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35. Horn and Miron, p. 77.
36. Ted Kolderie, The Charter Idea: Update and Prospects, Fall '95, Public Services Redesigns Project (St. Paul: Center for Policy Studies, 1995).
37. Matthew Miller, "A Bold New Plan to Fix City Schools," Atlantic, July 1999, pp. 15-31.
38. David Nakamura, "Struggling Schools Are Desperate for Experienced Teachers," Washington Post, 29 July 1999, p. A-1.
39. Peter Schrag, "The Near-Myth of Our Failing Schools," Atlantic, October 1997, pp. 72-80.
40. Ethan Bronner, "Long a Leader, U.S. Now Lags in High School Graduation Rate," New York Times, 24 November 1998, p. A-1.
41. "U.S. Outpaced in Graduation Rates," Washington Post, 24 November 1998, p. A-15.
42. Xinhua News Agency, "U.S. Falls Behind Others in High School Graduation Rate," 23 November 1998. Available from www.northernlight.com.
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44. Courtland Milloy, "A Look at Tragedy in Black and White," Washington Post, 2 May 1999, p. C-3; and William Raspberry, "If They'd Been Black," Washington Post, 7 May 1999, p. A-39.
45. Courtland Milloy, "A Look at Tragedy in Black and White," Washington Post, 2 May 1999, p. C-3; and William Raspberry, "If They'd Been Black," Washington Post, 7 May 1999, p. A-39.