The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining ...
ISBN: 9780465025572 | 0465025579
Edition: RevisedFormat: Paperback
Publisher: PERSEUS
Pub. Date: 11/1/2011
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Award-winning author, public intellectual, and former Assistant Secretary of Education Diane Ravitch critiques a lifetime's worth of school reforms and reveals the simple--yet difficult--truth about how we can create actual change in public schools
In her critically acclaimed national best seller, Diane Ravitch examines her career in education reform and repudiates positions that she once fiercely defended. Evaluating wildly popular ideas for restructuring schools, including charter schools and testing, she explain... MORE
In her critically acclaimed national best seller, Diane Ravitch examines her career in education reform and repudiates positions that she once fiercely defended. Evaluating wildly popular ideas for restructuring schools, including charter schools and testing, she explain... MORE
| Acknowledgments | p. ix |
| What I Learned About School Reform | p. 1 |
| Hijacked! How the Standards Movement Turned Into the Testing Movement | p. 15 |
| The Transformation of District 2 | p. 31 |
| Lessons from San Diego | p. 47 |
| The Business Model in New York City | p. 69 |
| NCLB: Measure and Punish | p. 93 |
| Choice: The Story of an Idea | p. 113 |
| The Trouble with Acc... MORE | p. 149 |
| What Would Mrs. Ratliff Do? | p. 169 |
| The Billionaire Boys' Club | p. 195 |
| Lessons Learned | p. 223 |
| Epilogue: School and Society | p. 243 |
| Notes | p. 289 |
| Index | p. 325 |
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$$$ is a Research Professor of Education at New York University. In 2011, she received the Daniel Patrick Moynihan Award from the American Academy of Political and Social Science for her careful use of social science research to advance the public good.
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