Slaying Goliath
The Passionate Resistance to Privatization and the Fight to Save America's Public Schools
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2020.
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: 336 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
"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.
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
Subjects:
Privatization in education -- United States.
Public schools -- United States.
Education and state -- United States.
EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy.
Public schools.
Privatization in education.
Education and state.
United States.
Privatization in education -- United States.
Public schools -- United States.
Education and state -- United States.
EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy.
Public schools.
Privatization in education.
Education and state.
United States.
ISBN:
9780525655374
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
EDUCATION Rav | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-318) and index.