Diane Ravitch
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
Award-winning author, public intellectual, and former Assistant Secretary of Education Diane Ravitch critiques a lifetime's worth of school reforms and reveals the simple--yet difficult--truth about how we can create actual change in public schools.
2) What do our 17-year-olds know?: a report on the first national assessment of history and literature
Author
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
c1987
Description
What Do Our 17-Year-Olds Know? Gives the results of the first nationwide test of American high school students' knowledge of history and literature, as well as fascinating insight into what teenagers are reading, how much television they watch, what influence their home environment has on their academic achievement, and what historical topics and literary works are included in (or have been dropped from) the school curriculum.
5) Reign of error: the hoax of the privatization movement and the danger to America's public schools
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2013
Description
"From the former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education, "whistleblower extraordinaire" (The Wall Street Journal), one of the foremost authorities on education and the history of education in the United States, author of the best-selling The Death and Life of the Great American School System; The Language Police ("Impassioned . . . Fiercely argued . . . Every bit as alarming as it is illuminating" --The New York Times); and the now-classic Great School...