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Results tagged “Review”
How Testing And Choice Are Undermining Education
In what more and more appears like a reverse
Renaissance -- aka self-inflicted Dark Ages -- those in power seem to
be seeking the destruction of public education, so that the reflective
thought necessary to question and hold accountable the greedy
leadership of this country will no longer exist. In The Death and Life of the Great American School System - How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education, Diane Ravitch
concisely analyzes the very real threat to a viable constitutional
democracy that consciously chooses to vest power in an educated citizenry. Beyond the strength of the arguments
she makes in questioning the much touted educational reform we
constantly hear about in the media is the fact that this politically
conservative educator is coming up with the same critiques that
politically progressive people have leveled at constantly changing
public education reforms that never seem to come to fruition in any
measurable way, except in the profits that these reforms seem to
generate for everyone except the students.
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03 2010
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