Diane Ravitch: 8 books
The Death and Life of the Great American School System
How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
An urgent case for protecting public education, from one of America's best-known education experts
In this landmark book, Diane Ravitch - former assistant secretary of education and a leader in the drive to create a national curriculum - examines her career in education reform and repudiates...
Slaying Goliath
The Passionate Resistance to Privatization and the Fight to Save America's Public Schools
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2020
From one of the foremost authorities on education and the history of education in the United States, "whistleblower extraordinaire" (The Wall Street Journal), former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education, author of the best-selling Reign of Error ("fearless"--Jonathan Kozol, NYRB)--an impassioned,...
The Language Police
How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
If you’re an actress or a coed just trying to do a man-size job, a yes-man who turns a deaf ear to some sob sister, an heiress aboard her yacht, or a bookworm enjoying a boy’s night out, Diane Ravitch’s internationally acclaimed The Language Police has bad news for you: Erase those words from...
Reign of Error
The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
From one of the foremost authorities on education in the United States, former U.S. assistant secretary of education, “whistle-blower extraordinaire” (The Wall Street Journal), author of the best-selling The Death and Life of the Great American School System (“Important and riveting”—Library...
More Than a Score
The New Uprising Against High-Stakes Testing
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2014
"Jesse Hagopian brought a rare moment of truth to the corporate-dominated Education Nation show when he spoke on behalf of his colleagues at Garfield High in Seattle. He instantly became the voice and face of the movement to stop pointless and punitive high-stakes testing."—Diane Ravitch,...
The American Reader
Words that Moved a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2010
The American Reader is a stirring and memorable anthology that captures the many facets of American culture and history in prose and verse. The 200 poems, speeches, songs, essays, letters, and documents were chosen both for their readability and for their significance. These are the words that...
What Do Our 17-Year-Olds Know
A Report on the First National Assessment of History and Literature
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
What Do Our 17-Year-Olds Know? Gives the results of the first nationwide test of American high school students' knowledge of history and literature, as well as fascinating insight into what teenagers are reading, how much television they watch, what influence their home environment has on their academic...
10 Common Core Essentials: Nonfiction
Selections from New and Classic Books for the English Language Arts Standards for Middle and High School
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
The excerpts featured in this free sampler come from some of our most popular nonfiction books for middle and high school classrooms—making them ideal choices to meet the new Common Core Standards for the English Language Arts. From the primary documents of The American Reader to The Boy Who Harnessed...