Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Louisiana Educator: The Most Important Book for Educators and Parents

Louisiana Educator: The Most Important Book for Educators and Parents:

The Most Important Book for Educators and Parents




The latest book by Diane Ravitch is now available for purchase from all major book sellers, and it is a must read for all who believe that a good public education system is critical to our country's future.

The book is titled Reign of Error; The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools.

In this, her latest meticulously researched book, Ravitch describes the myths upon which the current corporate reform of our education system is based. This expert historian of education carefully discredits the assumptions upon which the current education reform movement is based, and explains how extremely harmful much of the reform movement can be to our education system.

The first chapter of Reign of Error is titled: Our Schools Are at Risk. The author explains how major power brokers including some of the richest persons on the planet are proposing radical changes to our system of public education based on a manufactured crisis in student achievement. These influential power brokers propose to magically cure the ills of our education system with various forms of privatization. Ravitch explains chapter by chapter how the cure is much worse than the alleged illness. Many of these ill conceived proposals have already been adopted by Louisiana's legislature and our state has become a leader in the corporate reform movement.

Dr Ravitch exposes the charlatans of the education reform movement for what they really are; non educators who have figured out how to make a buck on education by scaring the