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The death and life of the great American school system : how testing and choice are undermining education /

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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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ravitch, Diane
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Basic Books, [2010]
Subjects:
Public schools > United States.
Educational accountability > United States.
Educational tests and measurements > United States.
School choice > United States.
Description
Summary: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.
Physical Description:x, 283 pages ; 25 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-271) and index.
ISBN:9780465014910 (alk. paper)
0465014917 (alk. paper)