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  2. From: danmac@bohr.physics.purdue.edu (Daniel L. MacIsaac)
  3. Newsgroups: sci.edu
  4. Subject: Why can't the conservatives just admit that they are obsolescent?
  5. Keywords: NRA, Helms, Buchanan, Reagan, Bush, IBM, mass extinctions
  6. Message-ID: <9146@dirac.physics.purdue.edu>
  7. Date: 21 Jan 93 15:05:45 GMT
  8. References: <1993Jan12.152749.25629@hemlock.cray.com> <1993Jan18.143557.2487@ucb
  9. Sender: news@dirac.physics.purdue.edu
  10. Organization: Purdue University Physics Department
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  13. ...ahh, much better!
  14.  
  15. Interesting commentary on the "failure" of American public schooling due to
  16. funding-related issues is graphically portrayed in:
  17.  
  18. Dec 92/Jan 93  Educational Leadership, Vol 50 (4).
  19.  
  20. Kozol, Jonathan (1991).  Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools.
  21. Crown Publishers:NY.
  22.  
  23. Let's get out there and throw some $$ at those schools!  
  24. (Or build some more prisons -- it's the American Way)
  25.  
  26. Dan
  27.  
  28. [Physics] '...is a narrow and rigid education, probably more so than any other
  29. except perhaps in orthodox theology'
  30.                         --  T.S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
  31. Dan MacIsaac, Science Ed/Physics Grad Student, danmac@physics.purdue.edu
  32.  
  33. -- 
  34. [Physics] '...is a narrow and rigid education, probably more so than any other
  35. except perhaps in orthodox theology'
  36.                         --  T.S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
  37. Dan MacIsaac, Science Ed/Physics Grad Student, danmac@physics.purdue.edu
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