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The Death And Life Of The Great American School System
Diane Ravitch
How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education
Basic Books
March 2010
On Sale: March 2, 2010
296 pages
ISBN: 0465014917
EAN: 9780465014910
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
A passionate plea to preserve and renew public education,
The Death and Life of the Great American School
System is a radical change of heart from one of
America’s best-known education experts.
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 to improve schools. Using examples
from major cities like New York, Philadelphia, Chicago,
Denver, and San Diego, Ravitch makes the case that public
education today is in peril.
Ravitch includes clear
prescriptions for improving America’s schools:
- leave decisions about schools to educators, not
politicians or businessmen
- devise a truly
national curriculum that sets out what children in every
grade should be learning
- expect charter
schools to educate the kids who need help the most, not to
compete with public schools
- pay teachers a fair
wage for their work, not “merit pay” based on deeply flawed
and unreliable test scores
- encourage family
involvement in education from an early age
The
Death and Life of the Great American School System is
more than just an analysis of the state of play of the
American education system. It is a must-read for any
stakeholder in the future of American schooling.
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