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Famous Person - Gerald Bracey

"Nationally known policy analyst, researcher and author Gerald Bracey loves to separate public education myth from reality in his lectures and writings. Bracey, a Virginia native, is well known for his monthly educational research columns in Phi Delta Kappan, and his periodic "//Bracey Report on the Condition of Education//" has drawn the attention of national media. His article "//Why Can't They Be Like We Were?//" now known as "//The First Bracey Report,//" drew the wrath of the first Bush Administration for Bracey's refutation of statements made in A Nation at Risk, a national education report commissioned by then President Bush. Bracey has been a research psychologist for the Educational Testing Service, associate director of the Institute for Child Study at Indiana University-Bloomington and served for nine years as the director of research, evaluation and testing for the Virginia Department of Education. Bracey emphasizes he does not believe schools are perfect. "There are real problems," he says, "but there needs to be a fuller discussion of those problems, and we need to get past the misconceptions." From [| SpeakersRus], [|Huffington Post Bio].



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