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Tragedy Looms for Gotham's School Reform

January 11, 2004  ·  By Sol Stern

City Journal, Autumn 2003 Posted with author's permission. [EDITOR's UPDATE, January 2004: the New York City Department of Education dumps the reading program they supported in 49 schools in order to get $34 million from the Federal Government, at a cost of.....]

On the educational side, their magnificent sleek engine for reform is tearing off in the wrong direction, threatening to plunge the academic futures of 1.1 million children over a cliff.