Slaying Goliath : the passionate resistance to privatization and the fight to save America's public schools / Diane Ravitch.

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    • Publication Information:
      First edition.
    • Abstract:
      Summary: "An in-depth look at the failed efforts to privatize public schools and the victories of those who have fought to save America's public school system"-- Provided by publisher.
    • Content Notes:
      Disruption Is Not Reform -- Odious Status Quo -- What Do the Disrupters Want? -- Meet the Resistance -- Beginning of the End of Disruption -- Resistance to High-Stakes Standardized Testing -- Rewards and Punishments Are Not Good Motivators -- Bait and Switch: How Liberals Were Duped into Embracing School Choice -- School Choice, Deregulation and Corruption -- The Resistance Fights Back -- Resistance Goes National -- Dark Money in Massachusetts and Connecticut -- Miracles That Weren't: New Orleans and Florida -- Common Core and a Gaggle of Other Failed Reforms -- Teachers Revolt -- Goliath Stumbles.
    • Notes:
      Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-318) and index.
      1 5 7 22
    • ISBN:
      9780525655374
    • Accession Number:
      2019022776
    • Accession Number:
      ccp.1086518