Vicki Cobb Reviews SLAYING GOLIATH
Vicki Cobb is an award-winning author of more than 90 children’s books, mostly about science.
In this post, she reviews SLAYING GOLIATH.
The review begins like this:
For the past 25 years there has been a national war between so-called education reformers and public schools. Education historian and indefatigable blogger on the topic, Diane Ravitch, has been chronicling the attacks, losses and now, finally, victories through her blog, where she posts up to ten times a day, every day, since April of 2012. In her new book Slaying Goliath: The Passionate Resistance to Privatization and the Fight to Save America’s Public Schools, she pulls the disparate threads together and writes a brilliant, page-turner story of this war against public schools for a period that included my 5 grandchildren.
Who are the bad guys? Millionaires and billionaires who come from a business background where forces of free-market choices, competition, and new standards create disruption in the market place allowing the best products to rise to the surface. Ravitch names names. We know who they are and they include Bill Gates, Betsy De Vos, and the Walton (Wallmart) families.
Ravitch aptly changes their names from education “Reformers” to education “Disrupters.” Measurement is key to determining educational CONTINUE READING: Vicki Cobb Reviews SLAYING GOLIATH | Diane Ravitch's blog
Ravitch aptly changes their names from education “Reformers” to education “Disrupters.” Measurement is key to determining educational CONTINUE READING: Vicki Cobb Reviews SLAYING GOLIATH | Diane Ravitch's blog