Gerald W. Bracey Self-employed

Gerald W. Bracey, a nationally known policy analyst, researcher, and author, also serves as an associate professor at the Graduate School of Education, George Mason University, an associate at the High/Scope Educational Research Foundation, and a Fellow with the Education Policy Studies Laboratory at Arizona State University. Bracey, well known for his monthly educational research columns in Phi Delta Kappan also writes the periodic “Bracey Report on the Condition of Public Education,” Bracey has been a research psychologist for the Educational Testing Service, an associate director of the Institute for Child Study at Indiana University, Bloomington, and the director of research, evaluation, and testing for the Virginia Department of Education. He is the author of numerous publications, including Put to the Test: An Educator’s and Consumer’s Guide to Standardized Testing; Setting the Record Straight: Response to Misconceptions About Public Education in the U.S.; The TRUTH About America’s Public Schools: The Bracey Reports, 1991-1997; and Understanding Education Statistics: It’s Easier (and More Important) Than You Think.