Letters to the Editor

To the Editor:

The reason the explosion over outcomes-based education occurred in Pennsylvania ("Pa. Parent Becomes Mother of 'Outcomes' Revolt,'' Sept. 22, 1993) was that parents identified with Anita Hoge. She was an ordinary parent whose request to see a state-mandated test turned into a four-year nightmare of red tape, hundreds of letters, and secretive "evaluations'' that no one was allowed to see. This kind of bureaucratic shuffle has happened again and again to parents across the country, but a book has been written about Anita Hoge's ordeal. And videotapes have been produced and hundreds of town-hall meetings have been held using the documentation she collected to expose the agenda of the "education elite.''

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