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Reign of error: the hoax of the privatization movement and the danger to America's public schools

Book information

Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group;Vintage Books
ISBN
9780385350891, 9780385350884, 9780345806352, 0345806352
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
5 MB (5002916 bytes)
Edition
First Vintage books edition
Pages
xii, 400 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52

Description

From 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....

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