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Author:

Ravitch, Diane, author.

Title:

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

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Alfred A. Knopf,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

pages cm

Subject:

Privatization in education--United States.
Public schools--United States.
Education and state--United States.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Disruption Is Not Reform! -- The Odious Status Quo -- What Do the Disrupters Want? -- Meet the Resistance -- The Beginning of the End of Disruption -- The 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 -- The Resistance Goes National -- Dark Money in Massachusetts and Connecticut -- The Miracles That Weren't:New Orleans and Florida -- Common Core and a Gaggle of Other Failed Reforms -- The Teachers Revolt -- Goliath Stumbl

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.

ISBN:

0525655379
9780525655374

LCCN:

2019022776

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)

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UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Carroll)

SAPG074 -- Cedar Falls Public Library (Cedar Falls)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

B9OX572 -- Grant Wood Area Education - Media & Technology Center (Cedar Rapids)

NYPE343 -- Charles City Public Library (Charles City)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)

GOPG641 -- Marshalltown Public Library (Marshalltown)

CYPF706 -- Musser Public Library (Muscatine)

D8PD522 -- North Liberty Community Library (North Liberty)

LAPH975 -- Sioux City Public Library (Sioux City)

SFPH074 -- Waterloo Public Library (Waterloo)

GEPG771 -- West Des Moines Public Library (West Des Moines)