The Death and Life of the Great American School System

Author: Diane Ravitch
Edition: First Trade Paper Edition, Revised and Expanded
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0465025579

The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education

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Diane Ravitch-former assistant secretary of education and a leader in the drive to create a national curriculum-examines her career in education reform and repudiates positions that she once staunchly advocated. Drawing on over forty years of research and experience, Ravitch critiques today's most popular ideas for restructuring schools, including privatization, standardized testing, punitive accountability, and the feckless multiplication of charter schools. She shows conclusively why the business model is not an appropriate way Search and find a lot of education books in many category availabe for free download.

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