death_place death_date birth_place birth_date known_for article_title name occupation
port townsend , washington 20 october 2009 williamsburg , virginia august 12 , 1940 bracey report gerald bracey
 gerald watkins bracey education policy researcher
gerald bracey

gerald watkins bracey -lrb- august 12 , 1940 -- october 20 , 2009 -rrb- was an american education policy researcher .
he is best known for the annual `` bracey report '' in which he analyzed current trends in education , often in opposition to prevailing educational policies of the day .
the reports were published over a seventeen-year period .
the last report was unfinished , and his colleagues at the national education policy center conducted the final revisions and published it in november 2009 .
