Manufacturing a Crisis in Education
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David C. Berliner and Bruce J. Biddle's essay, titled "Manufacturing a Crisis in Education," opens with this question, "Why have so many Americans come to believe that American education is so deficient and that we should look to the Japanese to find out how to run our schools?" He answers this question by stating "that for more than a dozen years this groundless and damaging message has been proclaimed by major leaders of our government and industry and has been repeated endlessly by a compliant press." I agree with the authors. Americans criticize our education system every chance they have. They focus on the negative and never on the positive. When major leaders of our government and industry make a statement, most Americans tend to follow and believe in what they say, whether they truly believe it or not.
Some support to this statement would be, A Nation at Risk. It is a provocative document released in 1983 that is highly critical of American education...