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A review by steveno
The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education by Diane Ravitch
5.0
An amazing book.
Amazing in its ideas.
Amazing in its thoroughness.
Amazing in its clarity.
Amazing in how right Ravitch is.
Ravitch looks at current educational trends and practice, many of which she helped to put in motion, and analytically deconstructs them, discussing how they won't work or are intellectually flawed.
While I was reading this, the Times magazine had a Steven Brill piece on the power of teachers unions and it was amazing to juxtapose Brill's imprecise, often misinformed takes on education with Ravitch's well-researched, well-reasoned, data-informed perspective on the same issue.
Despite all of the claims that modern education is now about data, there's also an awful lot of rhetoric and Ravitch does a great job cutting through the rhetoric.
Amazing in its ideas.
Amazing in its thoroughness.
Amazing in its clarity.
Amazing in how right Ravitch is.
Ravitch looks at current educational trends and practice, many of which she helped to put in motion, and analytically deconstructs them, discussing how they won't work or are intellectually flawed.
While I was reading this, the Times magazine had a Steven Brill piece on the power of teachers unions and it was amazing to juxtapose Brill's imprecise, often misinformed takes on education with Ravitch's well-researched, well-reasoned, data-informed perspective on the same issue.
Despite all of the claims that modern education is now about data, there's also an awful lot of rhetoric and Ravitch does a great job cutting through the rhetoric.