| Contents |
What I learned about school reform -- Hijacked!: how the standards movement turned into the testing movement -- The transformation of district -- Lessons from San Diego -- The business model in New York City -- NCLB: measure and punish -- Choice: the story of an idea -- The trouble with accountability -- What would Mrs. Ratliff do? -- The billionaire boys' club -- Lessons learned. |
| Abstract |
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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-271) and index. |
| LCCN | 2009050406 |
| ISBN | 9780465014910 (alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0465014917 (alk. paper) |
