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Enlarge cover image for <mark class='oils_SH title proper'>Slaying</mark> Goliath : the passionate resistance to privatization and the fight to save America's public schools Book

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

Ravitch, Diane (author.).

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"--

Record details

  • ISBN: 0525655379
  • ISBN: 9780525655374
  • Physical Description: 336 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
    print
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2020.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-318) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
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
Subject:
Education and state -- United States
Public schools -- United States
Privatization in education -- United States

Available copies

  • 15 of 15 copies available at Westchester Library System. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Greenburgh. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Greenburgh Public Library.

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  • 0 current holds with 15 total copies.
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Greenburgh Public Library 371.01 R (Text) 31009154676997 Nonfiction Available -

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