[ Action Item: email story to teachers you know – their jobs are at risk. ]
In “The Manufactured Crisis: “Myths, Fraud, and the Attack on America’s Public Schools” Dr. David Berliner and Bruce Biddle argued that ongoing criticism of America’s public schools is baseless and partisan. [ read review of book in Christian Ethics Today ]. A new study released January 2006, funded by the US Department of Education, by researchers at the University of Illinois at Champagne Urbana rebuts claims on the alleged low performance of public schools
[ click here for PDF of full report ]:
[ NCSPE study summary ] Findings reveal that demographic differences between students in public and private schools account for the relatively high raw scores of private schools on the NAEP. Indeed, after controlling for these differences, public school students generally score better than their private school peers…..Conservative Christian schools, the fastest growing private school sector, are the lowest performing private schools.[ emphasis mine ]
Meanwhile, the ongoing assault on America’s public schools comes from many quarters
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Meanwhile : Spread the word ! If you value public education, this is powerful evidence.
