Duncan lied
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| Vivek Wadhwa |
U.S. schools aren't really falling behind
Arne Duncan has been grabbing as much media time as he can, sounding the alarm that the U.S. is losing it's dominant position in the global education race to the top. He's been calling the results from the latest PISA tests, "a wake-up call" in order to spread panic and push through his corporate reform agenda. Duncan, running through the town square shouting, "the Chinese are coming," "the Finns are coming," conjures up memories of Cold War rhetoric after the Russians putSputnik up in space. The fear mongering volume was turned up again during the Reagan years with the publication of A Nation at Risk.
If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might