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This space explores issues in public education policy, and it advocates for a commitment to and a re-examination of the democratic purposes of schools. If there is some urgency in the message, it is due to the current reform efforts that are based on a radical re-invention of education, now spearheaded by a psychometric blitzkrieg of "metastasizing testing" aimed at dismantling a public education system that took almost 200 years to build. JH August, 2005

Sunday, April 11, 2010

An Essay Review Focused on Gerald Grant's New Book

From Education Review:
Horn, Jim. (2010, April 8). Caught Between Hope and Despair: An Essay Review. Review of Grant, Gerald. (2009). Hope and Despair in the American City: Why There Are No Bad Schools in Raleigh. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Vol. 13 No. 5
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