(Paperback)

"The Manufactured Crisis debunks the myths that test scores in America's schools are falling, that illiteracy is rising, and that better funding has no benefit. It shares the good news about public ed"

(Hardback)

Biddle (psychology and sociology, U. of Missouri) and Saha (sociology, Australian National U.) discuss concepts needed to understand the use of education research knowledge, review claims about the use of that knowledge in education, and provide evidence about these issues from a study based on inte