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Saving public education
Kozol, Jonathan | February 17, 1997 issue

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U.S. President Bill Clinton's inaugural address envisioned a "land of new promise" in which "the knowledge and power of the information age will be with in reach of every classroom." Recycled slogans sometimes seem to be the curse of education policy discussion in the U.S., and there is no set of slogans more neurotically reiterated these days than "the need for goals and standards" and "criteria" and "measurements of outcome" in public schools. These goals would be attained not by such seemingly essential strategies as spending money to deliver preschool education to poor children, but solely by the cost-free exercise of raising expectations, holding children and their teachers more accountable.

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EDUCATION & state; EDUCATION -- United States; CLASSROOMS; PUBLIC schools; GOAL (Psychology); EDUCATION, Preschool; POOR; CHILDREN; UNITED States
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