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The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education
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Diane Ravitch created quite a national stir when The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education came out last year in the United States. Here was a highly respected historian of American education publically recanting her previous advocacy of two main ideas shaping educational reform today: 1) the adoption of free market business practices to make schools more competitive, and 2) the use of standardized testing as the main assessment tool of student learning.
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- Authors
- Windhorst, D.
- Venue
- Brock Education Journal
- Publisher
- Brock University Library
- Published
- 2011-05-01
- Volume
- 20
- Issue
- 2
- ISSN
- 1183-1189 (ISSN-L)
- 2371-7750
- OpenAlex
- W1549469887
- Cited by
- 1,842
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 1046.83
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- diamond
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