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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
December 2011
On Sale: November 22, 2011
288 pages
ISBN: 0465025579
EAN: 9780465025572
Kindle: B005P0YXKI
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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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