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An edition of The death and life of the great American school system (2009)

The death and life of the great American school system

how testing and choice are undermining education

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  • 3 Want to read

Award-winning author, public intellectual, and former Assistant Secretary of Education Diane Ravitch critiques a lifetime's worth of school reforms and reveals the simple--yet difficult--truth about how we can create actual change in public schools.

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Subjects

Educational accountability, School choice, Public schools, Educational tests and measurements, Öffentliche Schule, Onderwijsvernieuwing, Bildungssystem, Bildungspolitik, Kunskapsprov, Utbildning, Skolor, Utbildningsval, Schulreform, Public schools, united states, nyt:hardcover-nonfiction=2010-04-11, New York Times bestseller, Educational change

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Cover of: Death and Life of the Great American School System
Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education
2016, Basic Books
in English
Libraries near you: WorldCat
Cover of: Death and Life of the Great American School System
Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education
2016, Basic Books
in English
Libraries near you: WorldCat
Cover of: The death and life of the great American school system
The death and life of the great American school system: how testing and choice are undermining education
2010, ReadHowYouWant
in English
Libraries near you: WorldCat
Cover of: The death and life of the great American school system
The death and life of the great American school system: how testing and choice are undermining education
2009, Basic Books
in English
Libraries near you: WorldCat

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Table of Contents

What I learned about school reform
Hijacked!: how the standards movement turned into the testing movement
The transformation of district 2
Lessons from San Diego
The business model in New York City
NCLB: measure and punish
Choice: the story of an idea
The trouble with accountability
What would Mrs. Ratliff do?
The billionaire boys' club
Lessons learned.

Edition Notes

"EasyRead large, 16."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 445-521).

Published in
[Sydney, Australia?]

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
379.1
Library of Congress
LA217.2 .R38 2010

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Pagination
vi, 524 pages (large-print)
Number of pages
524

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Open Library
OL33338322M
Internet Archive
deathlifeofgreat0000ravi_m1e3
ISBN 10
1458756424
ISBN 13
9781458756428
OCLC/WorldCat
677196025

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