May 3, 2013 “We’re Number Umpteenth!” The Myth Of Lagging U.S. Schools By Alfie Kohn Beliefs that are debatable or even patently false may be repeated so often that at some point they come to be accepted as fact.  We seem to have crossed that threshold with the claim that U.S. schools are significantly worse than those in most other … Continue reading “We’re Number Umpteenth!”: The Myth Of Lagging U.S. Schools (##)