The 13th Bracey Report on the Condition of Public Education

Phi Delta Kappan

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 148-164

  Bracey, Gerald W ^a,b  

^a High Scope Educational Research Foundation   (United States)

^b GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0142023185     PISSN: 00317217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/003172170308500211     Document Type: Review

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2. George F. Will, &Shame: School Reform's Weak Weapon,& Washington Post, 2 March 2003, p. B-7.
3. Testing the Testers 2003: A Ranking of State Accountability Systems (New York: Princeton Review, 2003).
4. Meeting the Highly Qualified Teachers Challenge (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Education, June 2003), p. 11.
5. Margaret Raymond, Stephen H. Fletcher, and Javier Luque, The Teach for America Evaluation in Houston (Palo Alto, Calif: Hoover Institution, August 2001), pp. 30-31.
6. Dan D. Goldhaber and Dominic J. Brewer, &Why Should We Reward Degrees for Teachers?,& Phi Delta Kappan, October 1998, pp. 134-38. For a refutation of their claims, see Gerald W. Bracey and Alex Molnar, &Recruiting, Preparing, and Retaining High-Quality Teachers: An Empirical Synthesis,& Educational Policy Studies Laboratory, Arizona State University, Tempe, February 2003, available at www.asu.edu/educ/epsl/EPRU/documents. Search on the title.
7. Dan D. Goldhaber and Dominic J. Brewer, &Why Should We Reward Degrees for Teachers?,& Phi Delta Kappan, October 1998, pp. 134-38. For a refutation of their claims, see Gerald W. Bracey and Alex Molnar, &Recruiting, Preparing, and Retaining High-Quality Teachers: An Empirical Synthesis,& Educational Policy Studies Laboratory, Arizona State University, Tempe, February 2003, available at www.asu.edu/educ/epsl/EPRU/documents. Search on the title.
8. Meeting the Highly Qualified Teachers Challenge, p. 46.
9. Brian Rowan, What Large-Scale Survey Research Tells Us About Teacher Effects on Student Achievement: Insights from the Prospects Study of Elementary Schools (Philadelphia: Consortium for Policy Research in Education, University of Pennsylvania, November 2002), p. 12.
10. Jay P. Greene, &An Unfair Grade for Vouchers,& Wall Street Journal, 16 May 2003; and Alan B. Krueger and Pei Zhu, &Another Look at the New York City School Voucher Experiment,& paper presented at the Conference on Randomized Experimentation in the Social Sciences, Yale University, August 2002.
11. Jay P. Greene, &An Unfair Grade for Vouchers,& Wall Street Journal, 16 May 2003; and Alan B. Krueger and Pei Zhu, &Another Look at the New York City School Voucher Experiment,& paper presented at the Conference on Randomized Experimentation in the Social Sciences, Yale University, August 2002.
12. Cecilia Rouse, &Private School Vouchers and Student Achievement: An Evaluation of the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program,& Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 1998, pp. 553-602.
13. Cecilia Rouse, &School Reform in the 21st Century: A Look at the Effect of Class Size and School Vouchers on the Academic Achievement of Minority Students,& Working Paper No. 440, Industrial Relations Section, Princeton University, available at www.irs.princeton.edu. Click on &working papers.&
14. School Vouchers: Publicly Funded Programs in Cleveland and Milwaukee (Washington, D.C.: General Accounting Office, Report No. GAO-01-914, August 2001), pp. 4-5.
15. William G. Howell, Patrick J. Wolf, Paul E. Peterson, and David E. Campbell, &Test-Score Effects of School Vouchers in Dayton, Ohio, New York City, and Washington, D.C.: Evidence from Randomized Field Trials, & unpublished paper, August 2000, available from the Program in Educational Policy and Governance, Harvard University.
16. Kate Zernike, &New Doubt Cast on Study That Backs Voucher Efforts,& New York Times, 15 September, 2000, p. A-26.
17. School Vouchers: Characteristics of Privately Funded Programs (Washington, D.C.: General Accounting Office, Report No. GAO-02-752, September 2002), p. 3.
18. Jay P. Greene, The Effect of School Choice: An Evaluation of the Charlotte Children's Scholarship Fund (New York: Manhattan Institute, Civic Report No. 12, August 2000), available at www.manhattan-institute.org/html/cr_12a.htm.
19. Paul E. Peterson and William G. Howell,&Efficiency, Bias, and Classification Schemes: Estimating Private-School Impacts on Test Scores in the New York City Voucher Experiment,& unpublished paper, June 2003, submitted to The American Behavioral Scientist. It is available at www.ksg.harvard.edu/pepg.
20. Jay P. Greene and Paul E. Peterson, &Methodological Issues in Evaluation Research: The Milwaukee School Choice Plan,& unpublished paper, August 1996, available from the Program in Educational Policy and Governance, Harvard University.
21. Michael Winerip, &What Some Much-Noted Data Really Showed About Vouchers,& New York Times, 7 May 2003, p. B-12.
22. Peterson and Howell, p. 6.
23. Kim K. Metcalf et al., Evaluation of the Cleveland Scholarship and Tutoring Program, Summary Report 1998-2001 (Bloomington: Indiana Center for Evaluation, Indiana University, March 2003), p. 7.
24. Doug Oplinger and Dennis J. Willard, &More Money for Vouchers,& Akron Beacon Journal, 29 June 2003, p. A-1.
25. Milton Friedman, &Public Schools: Make Them Private,& Washington Post, 19 February 1995, p. C-7.
26. The Voucher Veneer: The Deeper Agenda to Privatize Public Education (Washington, D.C.: People for the American Way, July 2003).
27. Michael Kinsley, &A Wife's Tale,& Washington Post, 18 March 2002, p. A-17.
28. See, for example, Amy Stuart Wells, Beyond the Rhetoric of Charter School Reform: A Study of Ten California School Districts (Los Angeles: UCLA, 1998) ; Jerry Horn and Gary Miron, An Evaluation of the Michigan Charter School Initiative: Performance Accountability and Impact (Kalamazoo: Evaluation Center, Western Michigan University, 2000); idem, Evaluation of the Michigan Charter School Initiative: Final Report (Kala-mazoo: Evaluation Center, Western Michigan University, 1999); and Casey Cobb and Gene V Glass, &Ethnic Segregation in Arizona Charter Schools,& Education Policy Analysis Archives, vol. 7, 1999, available at http://epaa.asu.edu/epaa/v7n1.
29. See, for example, Amy Stuart Wells, Beyond the Rhetoric of Charter School Reform: A Study of Ten California School Districts (Los Angeles: UCLA, 1998) ; Jerry Horn and Gary Miron, An Evaluation of the Michigan Charter School Initiative: Performance Accountability and Impact (Kalamazoo: Evaluation Center, Western Michigan University, 2000); idem, Evaluation of the Michigan Charter School Initiative: Final Report (Kala-mazoo: Evaluation Center, Western Michigan University, 1999); and Casey Cobb and Gene V Glass, &Ethnic Segregation in Arizona Charter Schools,& Education Policy Analysis Archives, vol. 7, 1999, available at http://epaa.asu.edu/epaa/v7n1.
30. See, for example, Amy Stuart Wells, Beyond the Rhetoric of Charter School Reform: A Study of Ten California School Districts (Los Angeles: UCLA, 1998) ; Jerry Horn and Gary Miron, An Evaluation of the Michigan Charter School Initiative: Performance Accountability and Impact (Kalamazoo: Evaluation Center, Western Michigan University, 2000); idem, Evaluation of the Michigan Charter School Initiative: Final Report (Kala-mazoo: Evaluation Center, Western Michigan University, 1999); and Casey Cobb and Gene V Glass, &Ethnic Segregation in Arizona Charter Schools,& Education Policy Analysis Archives, vol. 7, 1999, available at http://epaa.asu.edu/epaa/v7n1.
31. See, for example, Amy Stuart Wells, Beyond the Rhetoric of Charter School Reform: A Study of Ten California School Districts (Los Angeles: UCLA, 1998) ; Jerry Horn and Gary Miron, An Evaluation of the Michigan Charter School Initiative: Performance Accountability and Impact (Kalamazoo: Evaluation Center, Western Michigan University, 2000); idem, Evaluation of the Michigan Charter School Initiative: Final Report (Kala-mazoo: Evaluation Center, Western Michigan University, 1999); and Casey Cobb and Gene V Glass, &Ethnic Segregation in Arizona Charter Schools,& Education Policy Analysis Archives, vol. 7, 1999, available at http://epaa.asu.edu/epaa/v7n1.
32. David Arsen, David Plank, and Gary Sykes, School Choice Policy in Michigan: The Rules Matter (East Lansing: Michigan State University, 1999).
33. Ron Zimmer et al., Charter School Operations and Performance: Evidence from California (Santa Monica, Calif.: RAND Corporation, 2003).
34. See Wells, op. cit.; Katrina Bulldey, &Educational Performance and Charter School Authorizes: The Accountability Bind,& Education Policy Analysis Archives, vol. 9, 2001, available at http://epaa.asu.edu/epaa/v9n37.html.; and Gerald W. Bracey, What You Should Know About the War Against America's Public Schools (Boston: Allyn & Bacon, 2003), chap. 6.
35. See Wells, op. cit.; Katrina Bulldey, &Educational Performance and Charter School Authorizes: The Accountability Bind,& Education Policy Analysis Archives, vol. 9, 2001, available at http://epaa.asu.edu/epaa/v9n37.html.; and Gerald W. Bracey, What You Should Know About the War Against America's Public Schools (Boston: Allyn & Bacon, 2003), chap. 6.
36. Margaret Raymond, The Performance of California Charter Schools (Palo Alto, Calif.: Hoover Institution, May 2003); and David Rogosa, Student Progress in California Charter Schools, 1999-2002, available at www.cde.ca.gov/psaa/apiresearch.htm. Look under the category &Other Reports of Interest.&
37. Margaret Raymond, The Performance of California Charter Schools (Palo Alto, Calif.: Hoover Institution, May 2003); and David Rogosa, Student Progress in California Charter Schools, 1999-2002, available at www.cde.ca.gov/psaa/apiresearch.htm. Look under the category &Other Reports of Interest.&
38. Raymond, p. 2.
39. Jay P. Greene, Greg Forster, and Marcus A. Winters, &Apples to Apples: An Evaluation of Charter Schools Serving General Student Populations,& Working Paper No. 1, Center for Civic Education, Manhattan Institute, July 2003.
40. Ibid., p. 8.
41. Anthony Ralston, &Next Disaster in American Education: Rising Test Scores,& Sacramento Bee, 1 December 2002.
42. Greg Winter, &Make-or-Break Exams Grow, but Big Study Doubts Value,& New York Times, 28 December 2002, p. A-1.
43. Robert Rothman, Jean B. Slattery, Jennifer Vranek, and Lauren B. Resnick, Benchmarking and Alignment of Standards and Testing (Los Angeles: Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing, UCLA, CSE Technical Report 566, May 2002), p. 29.
44. D. Aileen Dodd, &Ruling Clears Teacher Opposed to Gateway Test,& Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 18 December 2002.
45. The Nation's Report Card: Trial Urban District Assessment, Reading 2002 (Washington, D.C.: National Center for Education Statistics, Report No. NCES 2003-523, July 2003).
46. Diana Jean Schemo, &Questions of Data Cloud Luster of Houston Schools,& New York Times, 11 July 2003, p. A-1.
47. &Houston's School Dropout Debacle,& New York Times, 21 July 2003, p. A-14.
48. Rod Paige, &Where's the Choice?,& Wall Street Journal,29 July 2003.
49. Chris Osher, &Paige Calls for Closing Achievement Gap,'& Pittsburgh Tribune Review, 29 July 2003.
50. Sara Rimer, &Philadelphia School's Woes Defeat Veteran Principal,& New York Times, 15 December 2002.
51. Janice I. Solkov, &Privatizing Schools Just Shouldn't Be This Hard,& Washington Post, 2 February 2003, p. B-4.
52. Gerald W. Bracey, &April Foolishness: The 20th Anniversary of A Nation At Risk,& Phi Delta Kappan, April 2003, pp. 616-21.
53. Koret Task Force, Our Schools and Our Future . . . Are We Still At Risk? (Palo Alto, Calif.: Hoover Institution Press, 2003).
54. Pete Du Pont, &Two Decades of Mediocrity,& Wall Street Journal, 5 May 2003.
55. Terrel H. Bell, The Thirteenth Man: A Reagan Cabinet Memoir (New York: Free Press, 1988).
56. Gerald Holton, &An Insider's View of A Nation at Risk and Why It Still Matters,& Chronicle of Higher Education, 25 April 2003.
57. James Harvey, &Nation's Students Still at Risk,& Seattle Times, 4 May 2003.