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Setting the Record Straight: Responses to Misconceptions About Public Education in the U.S.,Used
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Gerald Bracey knows there are three kinds of lies in education policy: lies, damned lies, and the statistics that reactionary reformers tout as evidence in favor of dismantling our public schools. In this second and substantially updated edition of the hardhitting Setting the Record Straight, Bracey, whom Washington Post education reporter Jay Mathews called one of this country's most authoritative defenders of the work of public school teachers, goes toetotoe with the opponents of quality public education. You'll learn how to discredit them in your own discussions by using the very logic and statistical analyses they purport to have on their side.In this series of smart, forceful analyses, Bracey homes in on specific topics like vouchers, school funding, and comparisons to international test scores, themes around which agitators have created a host of mythological American school failures from the flimsiest of evidence. In fact, each essay begins with a question you might commonly hear in conversation about these alleged shortcomings, to which Bracey provides a brief, sound byteready rebuttal. Then he follows it up with a fulllength explanation, replete with statistical data and talking points that fully support his assertionsand silence those who would undermine education with disinformation.Beginning in his introduction with the seed that germinated in Ronald Reagan's Nation at Risk sloganeering and quickly fastforwarding to the presentday federal intrusion into schools that has propelled so many political careers, Bracey stamps out the weeds of antipublic education advocacy and leaves no threat to quality teaching and learning behind. With Gerald Bracey and the truth behind you, you'll confidently take on the foes of public education in your own community and never again be cowed by the insidious arguments of education reformers.
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