You should read this amazing book
Tuesday, May 4th, 2010 I’m not used to starting an article with the kind of headline you see above. Education journalists are (or at least, should be, in my view…) accustomed to dealing in nuance, caveat and complexity, and not in the unequivocal enthusiasm which those six words suggest. But I feel they are justified in the case of Diane Ravitch’s “The Death and Life of the Great American School System”. For me, her book has performed an invaluable task, showing up the connections between debates in the US about school accountability, choice, testing and corporate involvement in education, and what has been going onRead More →