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Declining quality of learning worries educator.


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, and the Internet, children today have no shortage of outside influences to distract them from learning. We have entered what can only be described as a crisis in American public education, and we seem to be sleeping through it."

As Commissioner of Education for the state of Massachusetts, David P. Driscoll dares to say what few others will concede.
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Title Annotation:Quick Quotes
Author:McManus, John F.
Publication:The New American
Date:Apr 2, 2007
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