1995: David C. Berliner and Bruce J. Biddle publish "The Manufactured Crisis," which questions the data used in "A Nation at Risk" and says legislators used bad information to enact bad reforms. The still-influential book said the 1983 report characterized the quality of public education as far worse than it was. Other critics say the report focused too heavily on high schools.
We still believe the overall quality is terrible, although some analysts say it's mainly terrible in inner cities...
Sysiphus' effort wasn't terrible, and neither is that of inner city public school teachers.
What they are trying to do is impossible, and they should stop.