Bibliograph

Slaying Goliath, the passionate resistance to privatization and the fight to save America's public schools, Diane Ravitch

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Slaying Goliath, the passionate resistance to privatization and the fight to save America's public schools, Diane Ravitch

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-318) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Slaying Goliath

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1104217568

Responsibility statement

Diane Ravitch

Sub title

the passionate resistance to privatization and the fight to save America's public schools

Summary

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

Table Of Contents

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

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