Re: David Berliner on A Nation at Risk: Three Decades of Lies #2 - ADDENDUM #2

Some blog followers 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"

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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.