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The
Conspiracy of Ignorance: The Failure of
American Public Schools
The findings reported all too often in
the press are awesome: as many as 77% of
eighth graders fail reading tests, and as
many as 65% fail math tests. Government
schools monopolize over 90% of schooling
and are supported by school taxes. Are the
taxpayers getting any value for their
money? The public schools have claimed for
years that just one more "experiment" or
one more "tax increase" will solve the
problems they face. Yet the situation
continues to worsen. Martin Gross, after
he describes the current crisis, has some
ideas about reforming education
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