Public Education: An Autopsy.

From: Reason | Date: January 1, 1994| Author: O'Leary, John | Copyright information

IT IS CUSTOMARY TO WAIT UNTIL THE PAtient is dead before starting an autopsy. But Myron Lieberman has decided that public education is "beyond life-sustaining measures," and he's impatient to explore what went wrong.

It's a big job. The decline of America's education system has been chronicled in a series of publications with increasingly dire titles. First we learned Why Johnny Can't Read. Then we found out that Johnny's reading problems made America A Nation at Risk. Why ...

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