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National Education "Goals 2000": Some Disastrous Unintended Consequences.
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Seidman, Robert H. – 1995
No matter how well intentioned the Goals 2000: Educate America Act may be, it is doomed to failure. The theory of the logic and behavior of the educational system illustrates how powerful systemic forces converge to stabilize the high school attainment rate at about 75%, where it has been since 1965, and where no traditional national policy will…
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