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The shame of American education

From the latest issue of Behavior and Social Issues, Robin Rumph, Chris Ninness, Glen McCuller, James Holland, Todd Ward, and Tiffany Wilbourn (SFSU): "The Shame of American Education" Redux. From InterActions, a review of Learning Power by Jeannie Oakes, John Rogers and Martin Lipton; a review of Keepin’ it Real: School Success beyond Black and White by Prudence L. Carter; a review of Segregated Schools: Educational Apartheid in Post-Civil Rights America by Paul Street; a review of Language Policy by Bernard Spolsky; a review of School Commercialism: From Democratic Ideal to Market Commodity by Alex Molnar. A review of Tested: One American School Struggles to Make the Grade by Linda Perlstein. A review of Restless Virgins: Love, Sex, and Survival at a New England Prep School by Abigail Jones and Marissa Miley (and more).