The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education
Autor Diane Ravitchen Limba Engleză Paperback – 27 iun 2016 – vârsta de la 13 ani
A
passionate
plea
to
preserve
and
renew
public
education,The
Death
and
Life
of
the
Great
American
School
Systemis
a
radical
change
of
heart
from
one
of
America's
best-known
education
experts.
Diane Ravitch-former assistant secretary of education and a leader in the drive to create a national curriculum-examines her career in education reform and repudiates positions that she once staunchly advocated. Drawing on over forty years of research and experience, Ravitch critiques today's most popular ideas for restructuring schools, including privatization, standardized testing, punitive accountability, and the feckless multiplication of charter schools. She shows conclusively why the business model is not an appropriate way to improve schools. Using examples from major cities like New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Denver, and San Diego, Ravitch makes the case that public education today is in peril.
Ravitch includes clear prescriptions for improving America's schools:
- leave decisions about schools to educators, not politicians or businessmen
- devise a truly national curriculum that sets out what children in every grade should belearning
- expect charter schools to educate the kids who need help the most, not to compete with public schools
- pay teachers a fair wage for their work, not "merit pay" based on deeply flawed and unreliable test scores
- encourage family involvement in education from an early age
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780465036585
ISBN-10: 0465036589
Pagini: 400
Dimensiuni: 140 x 210 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Ediția:Revizuită
Editura: BASIC BOOKS
Colecția Basic Books
ISBN-10: 0465036589
Pagini: 400
Dimensiuni: 140 x 210 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Ediția:Revizuită
Editura: BASIC BOOKS
Colecția Basic Books
Notă biografică
Diane
Ravitchis
Research
Professor
of
Education
at
New
York
University
and
a
historian
of
education.
She
is
the
former
Assistant
Secretary
of
Education
and
a
former
member
of
the
National
Assessment
Governing
Board,
which
oversees
the
National
Assessment
of
Educational
Progress,
the
federal
testing
program.
The
author
of
ten
books,
includingReign
of
Error:
The
Hoax
of
the
Privatization
Movement
and
the
Danger
to
America's
Public
Schools.Ravitch
lives
in
Brooklyn,
New
York.
Recenzii
"Ms.
Ravitch...writes
with
enormous
authority
and
common
sense."—New
York
Times
"In an age when almost everybody has an opinion about schools, Ravitch's name must be somewhere near the top of the Rolodex of every serious education journalist in this country."—Nation
"Ms. Ravitch [is] the country's soberest, most history-minded education expert."—Wall Street Journal
"Ravitch's hopeful vision is of a national curriculum--she's had enough of fly-by-night methods and unchallenging requirements. She's impatient with education that is not personally transformative. She believes there is experience and knowledge of art, literature, history, science, and math that every public school graduate should have."—Christian Science Monitor
"The book intelligently and readably addresses today's education controversies, using a combination of anecdotes, case studies, and statistics.... [I]t's a must-read for education policymakers at all levels of government."—National Review
"Ravitch's critique is an essential one--passionate, well considered and completely logical."—Time Magazine
"Ravitch is our best living historian of education. In my view she is the best ever."—Jay Matthews,WashingtonPost.com
"The book that follows is, if not a mea culpa, perhaps something more valuable--a fiercely argued manifesto against fads in education reform and for public schools, and the teachers and students who inhabit them."—Boston Globe
"The Death and Life of the Great American School Systemmay yet inspire a lot of high-level rethinking."—Los Angeles Times
"Her credibility with conservatives is exactly why it would be particularly instructive for everyone--whether you have kids in school or not--to readThe Death and Life of the Great American School System."—Valerie Strauss,,Washington Post
"For readers on all sides of the school-reform debate, this is a very important book."—Booklist, starred review
"[A]n important and highly readable examination of the educational system, how it fails to prepare students for life after graduation, and how we can put it back on track.... Anyone interested in education should definitely read this accessible, riveting book."—Library Journal, starred review
"Diane Ravitch is the rarest of scholars--one who reports her findings and conclusions, even when they go against conventional wisdom and even when they counter her earlier, publicly espoused positions. A 'must' read for all who truly care about American education."—Howard Gardner, Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education
"No citizen can afford to ignore this brave book by our premier historian of education. Diane Ravitch shines a bright, corrective light on the exaggerated claims of school reformers on both the left and the right, and offers an utterly convincing case for abandoning quick fixes in favor of nurturing the minds and hearts of our students from the earliest years with enabling knowledge and values."—E. D. Hirsch, Jr.,author ofCultural Literacy,The Schools We Need, andThe Making of Americans
"In an age when almost everybody has an opinion about schools, Ravitch's name must be somewhere near the top of the Rolodex of every serious education journalist in this country."—Nation
"Ms. Ravitch [is] the country's soberest, most history-minded education expert."—Wall Street Journal
"Ravitch's hopeful vision is of a national curriculum--she's had enough of fly-by-night methods and unchallenging requirements. She's impatient with education that is not personally transformative. She believes there is experience and knowledge of art, literature, history, science, and math that every public school graduate should have."—Christian Science Monitor
"The book intelligently and readably addresses today's education controversies, using a combination of anecdotes, case studies, and statistics.... [I]t's a must-read for education policymakers at all levels of government."—National Review
"Ravitch's critique is an essential one--passionate, well considered and completely logical."—Time Magazine
"Ravitch is our best living historian of education. In my view she is the best ever."—Jay Matthews,WashingtonPost.com
"The book that follows is, if not a mea culpa, perhaps something more valuable--a fiercely argued manifesto against fads in education reform and for public schools, and the teachers and students who inhabit them."—Boston Globe
"The Death and Life of the Great American School Systemmay yet inspire a lot of high-level rethinking."—Los Angeles Times
"Her credibility with conservatives is exactly why it would be particularly instructive for everyone--whether you have kids in school or not--to readThe Death and Life of the Great American School System."—Valerie Strauss,,Washington Post
"For readers on all sides of the school-reform debate, this is a very important book."—Booklist, starred review
"[A]n important and highly readable examination of the educational system, how it fails to prepare students for life after graduation, and how we can put it back on track.... Anyone interested in education should definitely read this accessible, riveting book."—Library Journal, starred review
"Diane Ravitch is the rarest of scholars--one who reports her findings and conclusions, even when they go against conventional wisdom and even when they counter her earlier, publicly espoused positions. A 'must' read for all who truly care about American education."—Howard Gardner, Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education
"Diane
Ravitch
is
one
of
the
most
important
public
intellectuals
of
our
time.
In
this
powerful
and
deftly
written
book,
she
takes
on
the
big
issues
of
American
education
today,
fearlessly
articulating
both
the
central
importance
of
strong
public
education
and
the
central
elements
for
strengthening
our
schools.
Anyone
who
cares
about
public
education
should
read
this
book."
—Linda
Darling-Hammond,
Charles
E.
Ducommon
Professor
of
Education,
Stanford
University,
and
Founding
Executive
Director,
National
Commission
for
Teaching
&
America's
Future"No citizen can afford to ignore this brave book by our premier historian of education. Diane Ravitch shines a bright, corrective light on the exaggerated claims of school reformers on both the left and the right, and offers an utterly convincing case for abandoning quick fixes in favor of nurturing the minds and hearts of our students from the earliest years with enabling knowledge and values."—E. D. Hirsch, Jr.,author ofCultural Literacy,The Schools We Need, andThe Making of Americans