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Reign of Error : The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools by Diane Ravitch (2013, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-100385350880
ISBN-139780385350884
eBay Product ID (ePID)159828159
Product Key Features
Number of Pages416 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameReign of Error : the Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools
SubjectAdministration / General, Public Policy / General, Educational Policy & Reform / Federal Legislation, General, Aims & Objectives
Publication Year2013
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaPolitical Science, Education
AuthorDiane Ravitch
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.4 in
Item Weight26.3 Oz
Item Length9.5 in
Item Width6.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2013-015275
Dewey Edition23
ReviewsREIGN OF ERROR "Diane Ravitch's Reign of Error takes the myths surrounding public education head on and provides her readers with logic and reasoning sorely missing from the current debate. Diane is a fierce warrior against the so-called reformers whose ideology exacerbates the problems of poverty and inequity. Reign of Error takes on each of the common myths and blows them up with the reformers' own holy grail - DATA!! Data that disputes the miracle schools, the effects of poverty and myth of the dropout factors. Ravitch also takes on the Billionaire Boys Club with swipes at their handmaidens of destruction, including Michelle Rhee, Joel Klein, and Wendy Kopp, and the book provides the solutions that will change the trajectory away from so-called destructive innovation towards equitable, high quality education for all children." --Karen GJ Lewis, president of the Chicago Teachers Union "American educational reformers have fashioned a narrative that has become so pervasive that it has effectively silenced alternative accounts. In this courageous book Diane Ravitch persuasively challenges both the narrative's presentation and analysis of data and its underlying value system." --Howard Gardner, Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education THE DEATH AND LIFE OF THE GREAT AMERICAN SCHOOL SYSTEM "Ravitch is our best living historian of education. In my view she is the best ever." --Jay Mathews, WashingtonPost.com "For readers on all sides of the school-reform debate, this is a very important book." -- Booklist , starred "No citizen can afford to ignore this brave book by our premier historian of education. --E. D. Hirsch, Jr., author of Cultural Literacy, The Schools We Need , and The Making of Americans "Diane Ravitch is the rarest of scholars--one who reports her findings and conclusions, even when they go against conventional wisdom and even when they counter her earlier, publicly espoused positions. A 'must' read for all who truly care about American education." --Howard Gardner, Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education, REIGN OF ERROR "Diane Ravitch's Reign of Error takes the myths surrounding public education head on and provides her readers with logic and reasoning sorely missing from the current debate. Diane is a fierce warrior against the so-called reformers whose ideology exacerbates the problems of poverty and inequity. Reign of Error takes on each of the common myths and blows them up with the reformers' own holy grail - DATA!! Data that disputes the miracle schools, the effects of poverty and myth of the dropout factors. Ravitch also takes on the Billionaire Boys Club with swipes at their handmaidens of destruction, including Michelle Rhee, Joel Klein, and Wendy Kopp, and the book provides the solutions that will change the trajectory away from so-called destructive innovation towards equitable, high quality education for all children." --Karen GJ Lewis, president of the Chicago Teachers Union "American educational reformers have fashioned a narrative that has become so pervasive that it has effectively silenced alternative accounts. In this courageous book Diane Ravitch persuasively challenges both the narrative's presentation and analysis of data and its underlying value system." --Howard Gardner, Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education THE DEATH AND LIFE OF THE GREAT AMERICAN SCHOOL SYSTEM "Ravitch is our best living historian of education. In my view she is the best ever." --Jay Matthews, WashingtonPost.com "For readers on all sides of the school-reform debate, this is a very important book." -- Booklist , starred "No citizen can afford to ignore this brave book by our premier historian of education. --E. D. Hirsch, Jr., author of Cultural Literacy, The Schools We Need , and The Making of Americans "Diane Ravitch is the rarest of scholars--one who reports her findings and conclusions, even when they go against conventional wisdom and even when they counter her earlier, publicly espoused positions. A 'must' read for all who truly care about American education." --Howard Gardner, Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal379.3
SynopsisFrom one of the foremost authorities on education in the United States, former U.S. assistant secretary of education, "whistle-blower extraordinaire" ( The Wall Street Journal ), author of the best-selling The Death and Life of the Great American School System ("Important and riveting"-- Library Journal ), The Language Police ("Impassioned . . . Fiercely argued . . . Every bit as alarming as it is illuminating"-- The New York Times ), and other notable books on education history and policy--an incisive, comprehensive look at today's American school system that argues against those who claim it is broken and beyond repair; an impassioned but reasoned call to stop the privatization movement that is draining students and funding from our public schools. In Reign of Error , Diane Ravitch argues that the crisis in American education is not a crisis of academic achievement but a concerted effort to destroy public schools in this country. She makes clear that, contrary to the claims being made, public school test scores and graduation rates are the highest they've ever been, and dropout rates are at their lowest point. She argues that federal programs such as George W. Bush's No Child Left Behind and Barack Obama's Race to the Top set unreasonable targets for American students, punish schools, and result in teachers being fired if their students underperform, unfairly branding those educators as failures. She warns that major foundations, individual billionaires, and Wall Street hedge fund managers are encouraging the privatization of public education, some for idealistic reasons, others for profit. Many who work with equity funds are eyeing public education as an emerging market for investors. Reign of Error begins where The Death and Life of the Great American School System left off, providing a deeper argument against privatization and for public education, and in a chapter-by-chapter breakdown, putting forth a plan for what can be done to preserve and improve it. She makes clear what is right about U.S. education, how policy makers are failing to address the root causes of educational failure, and how we can fix it. For Ravitch, public school education is about knowledge, about learning, about developing character, and about creating citizens for our society. It's about helping to inspire independent thinkers, not just honing job skills or preparing people for college. Public school education is essential to our democracy, and its aim, since the founding of this country, has been to educate citizens who will help carry democracy into the future.
LC Classification NumberLB2806.36.R38 2014
