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Slaying Goliath : the passionate resistance to privatization and the fight to save America's public schools / Diane Ravitch.

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"An in-depth look at the failed efforts to privatize public schools and the victories of those who have fought to save America's public school system"-- Provided by publisher.

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ISBN: 9780525655374
ISBN: 0525655379
Physical Description: 336 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2020]

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Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-318) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Disruption Is Not Reform! -- The Odious Status Quo -- What Do the Disrupters Want? -- Meet the Resistance -- The Beginning of the End of Disruption -- The Resistance to High-Stakes Standardized Testing -- Rewards and Punishments Are Not Good Motivators -- Bait and Switch: How Liberals Were Duped into Embracing School Choice -- School Choice, Deregulation and Corruption -- The Resistance Fights Back -- The Resistance Goes National -- Dark Money in Massachusetts and Connecticut -- The Miracles That Weren't: New Orleans and Florida -- Common Core and a Gaggle of Other Failed Reforms -- The Teachers Revolt -- Goliath Stumbl

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Privatization in education > United States.
Public schools > United States.
Education and state > United States.

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