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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.

Publication Info. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2020.

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 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  371.01 RAVITCH    Check Shelf
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Non Fiction  371.01 RAVITCH    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  371.0109 RAVITCH    Check Shelf
 Burlington Public Library - Adult Department  371.0109 RAVITCH    Check Shelf
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  371.0109 RAVITCH    Check Shelf
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Lower Level  371.0109 RAVITCH    Check Shelf
 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Adult Department  371.0109 RAVITCH, DIANE    Check Shelf
 Cromwell-Belden Public Library - Adult Department  371.010973 RAV    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  371.0109 RAV    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  371.01 RAVITCH    Check Shelf

Edition First edition.
Description 336 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-318) 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 Stumbles.
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.
Subject Privatization in education -- United States.
Public schools -- United States.
Education and state -- United States.
Other Form: Online version: Ravitch, Diane. Slaying Goliath First edition. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2020 9780525655381 (DLC) 2019022777
ISBN 9780525655374 (hardcover)
0525655379 (hardcover)
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