By Katy Murphy
Wednesday, August 25th, 2010 at 8:59 am in Steven Weinberg, test scores
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Steven Weinberg, a retired Oakland teacher and Education Report blogger, thinks public education could use a new prescription.
Nine years ago my doctor informed me that my blood pressure was too high and put me at higher risk of having a heart attack or stroke and could shorten my life. He put me on a medication which quickly reduced by blood pressure fairly dramatically.
Several years later he changed my prescription to a different medicine. When my blood pressure climbed back about half-way to what it had been originally, I became concerned and asked him why we had switched to a less effective medication. He said that although the first drug was very successful in lowering blood pressure, long-term studies had shown it had no effect at all in reducing fatal heart attacks and
