November 5, 1999

Restoring Sanity to an Academic World Gone Mad

By JAMES F. CARLIN

If someone had predicted 50 years ago that, in 1999, the primary and secondary schools in the United States would be a mess, and urban public schools an absolute disaster, most Americans would have called that person an alarmist.

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