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The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education

Diane Ravitch

Why did a leading champion of testing, accountability and school choice come to doubt those same reforms?

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Author
Diane Ravitch

Why read it

  • You will see how the push for higher standards turned into a testing movement, and what measure and punish rules did to schools
  • You will be able to argue why schools must teach history, science, literature and the arts, not only basic skills, for democracy to last
  • You will question testing, accountability, choice and markets as cures for schools, by hearing why a former supporter now doubts them

Who it is for

  • A parent trying to judge test heavy schools and school choice
  • A teacher or principal working under accountability rules
  • A voter deciding which school reforms deserve support

Contents

  1. CHAPTER ONE - What I Learned About School Reform
  2. CHAPTER TWO - Hijacked! How the Standards Movement Turned Into the Testing Movement
  3. CHAPTER THREE - The Transformation of District 2
  4. CHAPTER FOUR - Lessons from San Diego
  5. CHAPTER FIVE - The Business Model in New York City
  6. CHAPTER SIX - NCLB: Measure and Punish
  7. CHAPTER SEVEN - Choice: The Story of an Idea
  8. CHAPTER EIGHT - The Trouble with Accountability
  9. CHAPTER NINE - What Would Mrs. Ratliff Do?
  10. CHAPTER TEN - The Billionaire Boys' Club
  11. CHAPTER ELEVEN - Lessons Learned

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