Letters

To the Editor:

Gerald W. Bracey's Commentary regarding the status of the U.S. educational system in relation to other developed nations' was a welcome introduction of evidence into a near-hysterical "grass is greener" phenomenon we have been in the midst of, as he points out, practically forever ( "TIMSS, the New Basics, and the Schools We Need," Feb. 18, 1998). It is particularly frustrating to me how often the wide availability and relative adaptability of our system is overlooked, even as we are compared with smaller, more homogeneous,...