Diane Ravitch's 'Reign of Error': an in-your-face defense of public education
'The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools'
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| "Public education is not broken. It is not failing or declining. Our urban public schools are in trouble because of the concentrated poverty and racial segregation." |
Education historian Diane Ravitch has produced a book that could make anyone from parents to policy wonks think twice about the direction American public schools are going.
Ms. Ravitch, 75, a former assistant secretary of education under President George H.W. Bush and now research professor of education at New York University, was once a proponent of testing and school choice, but she had an epiphany in 2006 when she realized the school choices she had been supporting didn't work.
"REIGN OF ERROR: THE HOAX OF THE PRIVATIZATION MOVEMENT AND THE DANGER TO AMERICA'S PUBLIC SCHOOLS"
By Diane Ravitch
Knopf ($27.95).
Knopf ($27.95).
That epiphany resulted in the 2010 book "Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education."
This time, Ms. Ravitch has written "Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools."
"Reign of Error" focuses on what she sees as hoaxes aimed at winning private control of education and suggests solutions, many of them addressing the challenges of racial segregation
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