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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"--

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

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General Note:
Paging and publisher may vary.
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

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Haywood County Library.

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