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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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The Death and Life of the Great American School System

How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education

by Diane Ravitch

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      Award-winning author, public intellectual, and former Assistant Secretary of Education Diane Ravitch critiques a lifetime's worth of school reforms and reveals the simple--yet difficult--truth about how we can create actual change in public schools

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      • Media: Hardcover Book, 283 pages
      • Language: English
      • Publisher: Basic Books (AZ)
      • Edition: Unknown
      • ISBN-10: 0465014917
      • Publication Date: Mar. 31st, 2010
      • ISBN-13: 9780465014910
      • Dimensions: 6.60 x 9.50 x 1.08 inches
      • Shipping Weight: 1.08 lbs
      • Categories: Educational Policy & Education Reform

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