The death and life of the great American school system
Subtitle: how testing and choice are undermining education
By: by Diane Ravitch
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant
Published: 2010
Place of publication: [Sydney, Australia?]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 524
ISBN-13: 9781458756428
Subjects: Public schools; Educational accountability; Educational tests and measurements; School choice
Description: 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.
Notes: "EasyRead large, 16."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 445-521).
Table of contents: title: What I learned about school reform; title: Hijacked!: how the standards movement turned into the testing movement; title: The transformation of district 2; title: Lessons from San Diego; title: The business model in New York City; title: NCLB: measure and punish; title: Choice: the story of an idea; title: The trouble with accountability; title: What would Mrs. Ratliff do?; title: The billionaire boys' club; title: Lessons learned.