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Enduring Hoaxes
- The Education Funding Hoax
Education funding did not double while test scores declined, this is a hoax.
- The Charter/Private School Comparison Hoax
Comparisons of student achievement between public school and charter/private school students are a hoax.
- The Tax Cut Hoax
The claim that tax cuts stimulate the economy is a hoax.
- The Tax Rebellion Hoax
Claims that taxes fomented the American Revolution are a hoax.
- The Civil Rights Hoax
America didn't desegregate public schools, public schools desegregated America.
- The California Reading Score Decline Hoax
Much of the rhetoric in discussions about how to teach reading revolve around an event that never happened.
- The Failing High Schools Hoax
The Economist, The Arizona Republic, and KTAR radio's Pat McMahon, all swallowed this "blackest of lies."
- "The False Crisis in Science Education"
Scientific American magazine's October, 1999, article expounds on public school bashing in science(the on-line version is no longer available):
"Give Us This Day Our Daily Dread: Manufacturing Crises in Education." by G. Cizek.
"Tinkering with TIMSS" by Gerald Bracey is useful for appreciating just how far politicians will go to smear public schools.
- "The Propaganda Of 'A Nation At Risk'"
from Gerald Bracey's website dedicated to debunking "Disinformation" about the public schools, demonstrates how blatantly fraudulent that report was.
- The Way We Were?
The Century Fund (formerly the Twentieth Century Fund) published a 140 page report in 1998 about the gap between reality and public perception of the public schools. Author Richard Rothstein notes "there is no hard evidence ... that the past was golden and no proof that current practices are harmful."
Excerpts of objective endorsements of public schools.
Excerpts of "public school bashing" going back over a hundred years.
- NAEP Proficiency Standards
National Research Council report on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) which says of the "Basic" and "Proficient" levels on that test: "NAEP achievement-level results do not appear to be reasonable...."
