Slaying Goliath the passionate resistance to privatization and the fight to save America's public schools
Diane Ravitch writes of those who have privatized the schools, the Disrupters, who believe America's schools should be run like businesses, with teachers incentivized with threats and bonuses, and schools that need to enter into the age of the gig economy in which children are treated like cust...
| Main Author: | Ravitch, Diane (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Alfred A. Knopf,
[2020]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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 Stumbl