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Re: [Phys-L] David Berliner on "A Nation at Risk": Three Decades of Lies #2 - ADDENDUM #2



Some subscribers to Phys-L might be interested in a recent post "Re: David Berliner on 'A Nation at Risk': Three Decades of Lies #2 - ADDENDUM #2" [Hake (2013c)]. The abstract reads:

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ABSTRACT: As a sequel to previous posts "David Berliner on 'A Nation at Risk': Three Decades of Lies #2" [Hake (2013a)] at <http://yhoo.it/10dPm4V> and "David Berliner on 'A Nation at Risk': Three Decades of Lies #2 - ADDENDUM" [Hake (2013b)] at <http://yhoo.it/10g1iTV>, I'm compelled to point out that today, 26 April 2013, the Fordham Institute <http://bit.ly/15WNcPn> and American Enterprise Institute <http://bit.ly/ZpCkGc>, both conservative think tanks, have placed on YouTube at <http://bit.ly/10hDbUW> a video "A Nation At Risk: 30 Years Later," featuring such "reformers" as Lamar Alexander, William Bennett, Arne Duncan, Chester Finn, and Michelle Rhee. The only speaker not heaping effusive praise on "A Nation at Risk" is ex-conservative renegade Diane Ravitch. She says (paraphrasing): "What the writers of 'A Nation at Risk' had in mind was higher standards, better schools, and a stellar public education system. But over the past 30 years the report has become the founding document of the privatization movement - the basis for privatization of the school system and the enrichment of a small number of entrepreneurs."
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Richard Hake, Emeritus Professor of Physics, Indiana University
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"[The authors of 'A Nation at Risk'] were wrong. Their predictions were all wrong. And I think it would be almost better to regard it as just a wake-up call. It's a way of using language that was overheated to . . . . get attention. But it had a real-world effect because for one thing it began the wrong march to destroy public education which is now in full flower."
- Diane Ravitch in YouTube video "A Nation At Risk: 30 Years Later"

REFERENCES [URL shortened by http://bit.ly/ and accessed on 27 April 2013.]
Hake, R.R. 2013c. "Re: David Berliner on 'A Nation at Risk': Three Decades of Lies #2 - ADDENDUM #2," online on the OPEN Net-Gold archives at <http://yhoo.it/10jCnPq>. Post of 26 April 2013 23:46:03-0700 to AERA-L and Net-Gold. The abstract and link to the complete post are being transmitted to several discussion lists and are on my blog "Hake'sEdStuff" at <http://bit.ly/Y4m0tB>.