ABSTRACT
“It’s lies, lies, and more lies,” I mutter to myself as I read the media’s usual account of the current school wars. At what point are we all witlessly drawn in by the winners of the war, the corporate interests, over how to tell the story? The problem is, the language of the winners becomes the language people use for responding to their lies. It begins to influence even me as I try to rebut increasingly familiar stories about “the decline of American public education” and how our public schools have aided and abetted the country’s waning global economic competitiveness and standard of living.
