Good News, Bad News
A recent Newsweek article posed the following question: "Are the schools getting better, worse, or just jogging in place?" and then responded, "The answer is yes and no and all of the above."
Other reports about education are less equivocal. Most show schools to be in serious trouble on a number of fronts: low achievement, violence, drugs, lack of discipline, and more. Others are now contesting these claims. In a new work entitled The Manufactured Crisis , researchers David Berliner and Bruce Biddle call the "education crisis" a myth and a fraud. (See Education Week, Sept. 13, 1995.)
Who's right? As the Newsweek article suggests, it is not an easy question to answer. But it is even more difficult to arrive at a clear understanding when the media selectively...
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