Bob Shepherd Reviews “SLAYING GOLIATH”
Bob Shepherd is a polymath, a man of remarkable learning, an author, a scholar, and at the capstone of his career, a classroom teacher.
Regular readers of this blog know him as a frequent contributor and a source of wisdom and humor.
Here is his review of my new book, SLAYING GOLIATH: THE PASSIONATE RESISTAMCE TO PRIVATIZATION AND THE FIGHT TO SAVE AMERICA’S PUBLIC SCHOOLS, which will be released on January 21 by Alfred A. Knopf, one of the nation’s finest trade publishers.
He begins:
In these dark days of Trumpism, reasons for optimism are the spar to which the rest of us, the passengers on the now disastrously helmed ship of state, attempt to cling. Diane Ravitch’s new book, Slaying Goliath is such a spar. It’s a celebration of those who have pushed back against the oligarch-led disruption and attempted privatization of our preK-12 educational system. But it’s more than just a lot of cheering stories (though it is that, and we need those; reading this, you will find yourself cheering again and again). It’s also, effectively, a manual for the CONTINUE READING: Bob Shepherd Reviews “SLAYING GOLIATH” | Diane Ravitch's blog
