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03517aam a2200373 i 4500 001 3710B4CCEF6911EBB8061DD04AECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210728010108 008 200521r20202020nyua b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 0525564764 020 $a 9780525564768 035 $a (OCoLC)1155075459 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d IAD $d OCLCF $d GSU $d OCLCO $d SILO 050 4 $a LB2806.36 $b .R385 2020b 100 1 $a Ravitch, Diane, $e author. 245 10 $a Slaying Goliath : $b the passionate resistance to privatization and the fight to save America's public schools / $c Diane Ravitch. 250 $a First Vintage Books edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, $c 2020. 300 $a 340 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 20 cm 500 $a "Originally published in hardcover, in slightly different form, in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, in 2020"--Title page verso. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-322) and index. 520 $a "From one of the foremost authorities on education in the United States, Slaying Goliath is an impassioned, inspiring look at the ways in which parents, teachers, and activists are successfully fighting back to defeat the forces that are trying to privatize America's public schools. Diane Ravitch writes of a true grassroots movement sweeping the country, from cities and towns across America, a movement dedicated to protecting public schools from those who are funding privatization and who believe that America's schools should be run like businesses and that children should be treated like customers or products. Slaying Goliath is about the power of democracy, about the dangers of plutocracy, and about the potential of ordinary people--armed like David with only a slingshot of ideas, energy, and dedication--to prevail against those who are trying to divert funding away from our historic system of democratically governed, nonsectarian public schools. Among the lessons learned from the global pandemic of 2020 is the importance of our public schools and their teachers and the fact that distance learning can never replace human interaction, the personal connection between teachers and students."--Publisher's website. 505 00 $t Goliath stumbles. $t The odious status quo -- $t What do the disrupters want? -- $t Meet the resistance -- $t The beginning of the end of disruption -- $t The resistance to high-stakes standardized testing -- $t Rewards and punishments are not good motivators -- $t Bait and switch : how liberals were duped into embracing school choice -- $t School choice, deregulation, and corruption -- $t The resistance fights back -- $t The resistance goes national -- $t Dark money in Massachusetts and Connecticut -- $t The miracles that weren't : New Orleans and Florida -- $t Common Core and a gaggle of other failed reforms -- $t The teachers revolt -- $t Goliath stumbles. 650 0 $a Privatization in education $z United States. 650 0 $a Public schools $z United States. 650 0 $a Education and state $z United States. 650 7 $a Education and state. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00902835 650 7 $a Privatization in education. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01077670 650 7 $a Public schools. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01082942 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 941 $a 1 952 $l CEAX572 $d 20210728010944.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=3710B4CCEF6911EBB8061DD04AECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b UINInitiate Another SILO Locator Search