Future Schlock Using Fabricated Data and Politically Correct Platitudes in the Name of Education Reform

Phi Delta Kappan

Volumn 78, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 493-498

  Baines, Lawrence ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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References (42)

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2. Ibid., p. v.
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9. Peter Kelman, quoted in Mageau and Chion-Kennedy, p. 37.
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11. Richard Clark, "Reconsidering Research on Learning from Media," Review of Educational Research, vol. 53, 1983, pp. 445-59; idem, "Media and Method," Educational Technology Research & Development, vol. 42, 1994, pp. 7-10; idem, "Media Will Never Influence Learning," Educational Technology Research & Development, vol. 42, 1994, pp. 21-29; and idem, "When Researchers Swim Upstream: Reflections on an Unpopular Argument About Learning from Media," Educational Technology, vol. 31, 1991, pp. 34-40.
12. Richard Clark, "Reconsidering Research on Learning from Media," Review of Educational Research, vol. 53, 1983, pp. 445-59; idem, "Media and Method," Educational Technology Research & Development, vol. 42, 1994, pp. 7-10; idem, "Media Will Never Influence Learning," Educational Technology Research & Development, vol. 42, 1994, pp. 21-29; and idem, "When Researchers Swim Upstream: Reflections on an Unpopular Argument About Learning from Media," Educational Technology, vol. 31, 1991, pp. 34-40.
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25. Lawrence Baines and Coleen Baines with Karen Masterson, "Mainstreaming: One School's Reality," Phi Delta Kappan, September 1994, pp. 39-40, 57-64.
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30. E. D. Hirsch, Cultural Literacy (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1987); Arthur Schlesinger, The Disuniting of America (New York: Norton, 1992); and Harold Bloom, The Western Canon (New York: Harcourt Brace, 1994).
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33. "Multicultural Education in an Effective School," in Curriculum Guide (Jackson, Miss.: Jackson Public Schools, 1992), p. 5.
34. Statistical Abstract of the United States (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Commerce, 1994), Table 21.
35. Ibid., Tables 49, 50, 53.
36. Morton Winsberg, "Specific Hispanics," American Demographics, February 1994, pp. 44-53.
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38. Lonnie Harp, "Builders, District at Odds in School-Starved Dade," Education Week, 25 January 1995, p. 5.
39. Michael Mandel et al., "Will Schools Ever Get Better?," Business Week, 17 April 1995, p. 66.
40. Ibid., pp. 65-68.
41. Eric Hanushek, "Money Might Matter Some-where," Educational Researcher, April 1994, pp. 5-8.
42. Specifically, the 17 April 1995 issue documents the "surge in teacher pay." See Mandel et al., p. 68.