TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ravitch,Diane
TI  - The death and life of the great American school system: how testing and choice are undermining education 
SN  - 0465036589
AV  - LA 217.2 R256d 2016
U1  - 379.1 
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Basic Books
KW  - Public schools
KW  - United States
KW  - Educational accountability
KW  - Educational tests and measurements
KW  - School choice
KW  - Educational change
KW  - Financiación de la educación
KW  - Educación
KW  - Aspectos económicos
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-335) and index; What I learned about school reform -- Hijacked! How the standards movement turned into the testing movement -- The transformation of District 2 -- Lessons from San Diego -- The business model in New York City -- NCLB: measure and punish -- Choice: the story of an idea -- The trouble with accountability -- What would Mrs. Ratliff do? -- The billionaire boys' club -- Lessons learned -- Epilogue: School and society
N2  - 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
ER  -