Slaying Goliath : the passionate resistance to privatization and the fight to save America's public schools / Diane Ravitch.
"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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780525655374
- ISBN: 0525655379
- Physical Description: 336 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2020]
Content descriptions
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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Subject: | Privatization in education > United States. Public schools > United States. Education and state > United States. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Memorial Library of Nazareth and Vicinity.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Memorial Library of Nazareth and Vicinity | 371.01 RAV 2020 (Text) | 31001101792290 | Adult Non Fiction | Available | - |
Summary:
"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"--