New Book Accuses Education Dept. of Research Errors That Skewed Policy Making

By DAVID GLENN

Four recent, federally financed studies of college attendance and social equality are marred by serious conceptual and statistical errors, several scholars charge in a new book.

According to those critics, the four reports on the studies, which were released from 1997 to 2002, have promoted the false idea that...

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