Phi Delta Kappan, October 1st, 1999
Using Success for All as an example, Mr. Walberg and Ms. Greenberg argue that federal funds continue to support the promulgation and biased evaluation of failed programs. This, they say, is worse than doing nothing.
THE FEDERAL government and foundations sponsor report after report describing programs said to raise student achievement, particularly that of poor, urban, and minority children. Many articles in scholarly and practitioner journals also describe programs that apparently raise students' test scores.
Yet the best long-term indicator of achievement, the National Assessment of Educ...
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