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Brookings Papers on Education Policy

2000
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In the third annual issue of the series, prominent economists, educators and other social scientists analyze the importance of standards in education and review some of the major controversies that have arisen in the past decade on the problems of shaping and implementing standards. The year 2000 issue includes essays from Robert Costrell of the Uiversity of Massachusetts, Julian Betts of the University of California at San Diego, John Bishop of Cornell University, and Herbert Walberg of the University of Illinois in Chicago.
Diane Ravitch , former Assistant Secretary of Educational Research and Improvement at the U.S. Department of Education, is the author of numerous books, including The Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn (Knopf, 2003), Left Back: A Century of Battles over School Reform (Simon & Schuster, 2001), and National Standards in American Education: A Citizen's Guide (Brookings, 1995).
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