The 16th Bracey report on the condition of public education

Phi Delta Kappan

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 151-166

  Bracey, Gerald W ^a  

^a High Scope Educational Research Foundation   (United States)

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EID: 33750163904     PISSN: 00317217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/003172170608800213     Document Type: Review

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55. Geoffrey Colvin, "America Isn't Ready: Here's What to Do About It," Fortune, 25 July 2005, pp. 70-82.
56. Carl Bialik, "Sounding the Alarm with a Fuzzy Stat," Wall Street Journal, 27 October 2005. Unlike most of the Journal, Bialik's often interesting columns can be obtained free at www.WSJ.com/NumbersGuy.
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58. Gerald W. Bracey, "Heard the One About the 600,000 Chinese Engineers?," Washington Post, 21 May 2006, p. C-3.
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62. Jay Greene, "Education Myths," American Enterprise Online, 2006, www.taemag.com/issues/articleID.19233/article_detail.asp.
63. Andrew Block and Virginia Weisz, "Choosing Prisoners over Pupils," Washington Post, 6 July 2004, p. A-19.
64. Andrew Block, personal communication, e-mail, 17 July 2006.
65. Mike Schmoker, "The Quiet Revolution in Achievement," Education Week, 3 November 1999, p. 32.
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68. Global Competitiveness Report, 2005-2006 (Geneva, Switzerland: World Economic Forum, 2005). Some reports had Finland in first place. Finland was first in what the WEF calls "growth competitiveness," with the U.S. second. On overall competitiveness, though, the U.S. is first, Finland second (p. 28).