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Central High School in Providence (via providenceschools.blogspot.com)

Defending American Schools from ‘Reformers’

By Samuel G. Howard on April 17, 2012

It was interesting to me to learn about the article by Paul Farhi in the American Journalism Review called “Flunking the Test“, which blows apart typical reporting on education as essentially taking so-called “reformers” views at face value. Mr. Farhi points out that not only is the idea of an “crisis in education” false, (recalling arguments advanced [...]

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