The last report was unfinished, and his colleagues at the National Education Policy Center conducted the final revisions and published it in November 2009.

He was amazed that his daughter, during her junior year at a high school in Colorado, was already studying calculus and the writer Ibsen, two topics to which he himself had not been exposed to until college.

He also remarked that the complicated science fair experiments that he observed were “[l]ight years removed from the simple machines, simple equations, and phyla to be memorized in [his] high school days.”[4] Bracey attended the College of William and Mary and received his Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology in 1962.

[5] Bracey lived in Hong Kong for a year between 1965 and 1966 and traveled around Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Europe before returning to the United States to finish his doctorate degree.

[3][7] He was there for three years before moving on to Indiana University in 1970, working as both an assistant professor at the School of Education and Associate Director at the Institute for Child Study until 1973.

[8] In 1977, he returned to the United States and became the Director of Research, Evaluation and Testing at the Virginia Department of Education in Richmond, VA.[3][9] During his tenure at the Virginia Department of Education he began writing a column titled “Research” for the Phi Delta Kappan in 1984; he continued writing for the Phi Delta Kappan until his death in 2009.

[3][7][8][9] In 1986 he began working for the Cherry Creek Schools in Engelwood, Colorado as their Director of Research and Evaluation.

[1] In 1991, Bracey also founded the Education Disinformation Detection and Reporting Agency (EDDRA) website, whose purpose was to use “the real-time power of the Net to debunk dis- and mis-information about public schools.”[3][9] He became a regular blogger for the Huffington Post in 2006.

Handling Difficult Data and Tough Questions About Public Schools (2000); and Reading Educational Research: How to Avoid Getting Statistically Snookered (2006).

[30] This award recognizes an individual’s achievements in published works that appear in sources other than peer-reviewed journals or books.

One of his last tweets read: "Thinking that the light at the end of the education tunnel is a standards freight train coming our way.

One notable journal in which Bracey was involved with was Phi Delta Kappan, in which he held a monthly column for many years.

Other regular publications include a blog in the Huffington Post and an article in the journal Principal Leadership.