The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education
Diane Ravitch created quite a national stir when The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education came out last year in the United States. Here was a highly respected historian of American education publically recanting her previous a...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brock University
2011-05-01
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| Series: | Brock Education: a Journal of Educational Research and Practice |
| Online Access: | http://brock.scholarsportal.info/journals/brocked/home/article/view/172 |
| Summary: | Diane Ravitch created quite a national stir when The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education came out last year in the United States. Here was a highly respected historian of American education publically recanting her previous advocacy of two main ideas shaping educational reform today: 1) the adoption of free market business practices to make schools more competitive, and 2) the use of standardized testing as the main assessment tool of student learning. |
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| ISSN: | 1183-1189 1183-1189 |