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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.

Table of 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
• Epilogue: School and society.

Author/Creator:

Ravitch, Diane , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

The death and life of the great American school system: how testing and choice are undermining education [by Ravitch, D.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Death and life of the great American school system [by Ravitch, D.] (Revised and expanded edition; New York : Basic Books, [2016] — ISBN 0465036589; LCCN 2016303992; OCLC Number 958205683)

Subjects:

Public schools — United States

Educational accountability — United States

Educational tests and measurements — United States

School choice — United States

Educational change — United States

Public schools

Educational accountability

Educational tests and measurements

School choice

Educational change

United States

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-335) and index.
Description based on: Print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xliv, 354 pages)

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

LA217 .R36 2016eb

ISBNs:

9780465097999
0465097995
0465036589 [Invalid]
9780465036585 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

959282139

Other Control Numbers:

1341702 (source: EbpS)