Diane Ravitch
Diane Ravitch is a historian of education and Research Professor of Education at New York University and Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. She was assistant secretary in charge of research in the U.S. ... [... more]
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The Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What ...
 From Amazon.com: The impulse in the 1960s and `70s to achieve fairness and a balanced perspective in our nation's textbooks and standardized exams was undeniably necessary and commendable. Then how could it have gone so terribly wrong? Acclaimed [... more]
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The Story of Mankind
From Amazon.com: Anyone who can chronicle world history from 500,000 B.C. to present times--and do so in a lively, entertaining style--deserves a medal. Luckily, the bestowers of the very first Newbery Medal in 1922 thought so, too. The warm, personable [... more]
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The Story of Mankind
From Amazon.com: Anyone who can chronicle world history from 500,000 B.C. to present times--and do so in a lively, entertaining style--deserves a medal. Luckily, the bestowers of the very first Newbery Medal in 1922 thought so, too. The warm, personable [... more]
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Forgotten Heroes of American Education: The Great ...
Education, true education, should liberate": By Richard K. Munro MA, Renshaw Fellow UVA 2004 Null, Wesley and Diane Ravitch, Eds. Forgotten Heroes of American Education , Information Age Publishing, Greenwich Connecticut, 2006 America, all is not [... more]
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The Story of Mankind
From Amazon.com: Anyone who can chronicle world history from 500,000 B.C. to present times--and do so in a lively, entertaining style--deserves a medal. Luckily, the bestowers of the very first Newbery Medal in 1922 thought so, too. The warm, personable [... more]
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Forgotten Heroes of American Education: The Great ...
Education, true education, should liberate": By Richard K. Munro MA, Renshaw Fellow UVA 2004 Null, Wesley and Diane Ravitch, Eds. Forgotten Heroes of American Education , Information Age Publishing, Greenwich Connecticut, 2006 America, all is not [... more]
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Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise to ...
From Amazon.com: Many theories have been offered regarding why Western culture has spread so successfully across the world, with arguments ranging from genetics to superior technology to the creation of enlightened economic, moral, and political systems. [... more]
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Edspeak: A Glossary of Education Terms, Phrases, ...
Author: Diane Ravitch Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 370.3 EAN: 9781416605751 ISBN: 1416605754 Number Of Pages: 245 Publication Date: 2007-07 [... more]
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Left Back: A Century of Battles over School Reform
Without reference, merit, or scholarship: I read this book and others including Tinkering Towards Utopia (Tyack and Cuban, Elusive Science (Lagemann), Teaching in America (Grant and Murray), and Reconstrucing American Education (Katz). I strongly [... more]
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Debating the Future of American Education
Author: Diane Ravitch Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 379.1580973 EAN: 9780815773535 ISBN: 0815773536 Number Of Pages: 192 Publication Date: 2005-07-11 [... more]
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The Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What ...
From Amazon.com: The impulse in the 1960s and `70s to achieve fairness and a balanced perspective in our nation's textbooks and standardized exams was undeniably necessary and commendable. Then how could it have gone so terribly wrong? Acclaimed [... more]
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