Slaying Goliath : the passionate resistance to privatization and the fight to save America's public schools
(2020)

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
371.0109/RAVITCH,D

1 Holds on 1 Copy

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Adult Nonfiction 371.0109/RAVITCH,D Available

Details

PUBLISHED
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2020
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION

336 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9780525655374, 0525655379 :, 0525655379, 9780525655374
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

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 Stumbles

"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"--