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The death and life of the great American school system : how testing and choice are undermining education / Diane Ravitch.
- Title
- The death and life of the great American school system : how testing and choice are undermining education / Diane Ravitch.
- Author
- Ravitch, Diane
- Publication
- New York, NY : Basic Books, c2010.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | LA217.2 .R38 2010 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- x, 283 p.; 25 cm
- Summary
- 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.
- Alternative Title
- American school system
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-271) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- What I learned about school reform -- Hijacked! : how the standards movement turned into the testing movement -- The transformation of District 2 -- Lessons from San Diego -- The business model in New York City -- NCLB : measure and punish -- Choice : the story of an idea -- The trouble with accountability -- What would Mrs. Ratliff do? -- The billionaire boys' club -- Lessons learned.
- ISBN
- 9780465014910 (alk. paper)
- 0465014917 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2009050406
- OCLC
- 435418514
- SCSB-11532587
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library