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Ravitch, Diane.
Subjects
Privatization in education.
School choice.
Charter schools.
Academic achievement -- Testing.
Education and state.
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Ravitch, Diane.
Privatization in education.
School choice.
Charter schools.
Academic achievement -- Testing.
Education and state.
MARC Display
Reign of error : the
hoax
of the
privatization
movement
and the
danger
to
America
's
public
schools
/ Diane Ravitch.
by
Ravitch, Diane.
Alfred A. Knopf, 2013.
Call #:
379.3 R256r
Subjects
Privatization
in education.
School choice.
Charter
schools
.
Academic achievement -- Testing.
Education and state.
ISBN:
9780385350884 (hc.)
0385350880 (hc.)
Alternate title:
Hoax
of the
privatization
movement
and the
danger
to
America
's
public
schools
Edition:
First edition.
Description:
xii, 396 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Our
schools
are at risk -- The context for corporate reform -- Who are the corporate reformers? -- The language of corporate reform -- The facts about test scores -- The facts about the achievement gap -- The facts about the international test scores -- The facts about high school graduation rates -- The facts about college graduation rates -- How poverty affects academic achievement -- The facts about teachers and test scores -- Why merit pay fails -- Do teachers need tenure and seniority? -- The problem with Teach For
America
-- The mystery of Michelle Rhee -- The contradictions of charters -- Trouble in e-land -- Parent trigger, parent tricker -- The failure of vouchers --
Schools
don't improve if they are closed -- Solutions: start here -- Begin at the beginning -- The early years count -- The essentials of a good education -- Class size matters for teaching and learning -- Make charters work for all -- Wraparound services make a difference -- Measure knowledge and skills with care -- Strengthen the profession -- Protect democratic control of
public
schools
-- The toxic mix --
Privatization
of
public
education is wrong -- Conclusion: The pattern on the rug.
Summary:
"From the former U.
S
. Assistant Secretary of Education, "whistleblower extraordinaire" (The Wall Street Journal), one of the foremost authorities on education and the history of education in the United States, author of the best-selling The Death and Life of the Great American School System; The Language Police ("Impassioned . . . Fiercely argued . . . Every bit as alarming as it is illuminating" --The New York Times); and the now-classic Great School Wars: A History of the New York City
Public
Schools--an incisive, comprehensive look at today'
s
American
public
schools
that argues persuasively against those who claim our
public
school system is broken, beyond repair, and obsolete; an impassioned but reasoned call to stop the rising "
privatization
movement
" draining students--and funding--from our
public
schools
, a book that puts forth a detailed plan of what needs to happen to
schools
and with
public
policy to insure the survival of this American institution so basic to our democracy."--P. [2] of cover.
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