Ravitch, Diane. <br/><br/>
The death and life of the great American school system :  how testing and choice are undermining education / 
Diane Ravitch. 
 - Revised and expanded edition. 
 - New York :  Basic Books,  [2016] 
 - xliv, 354 p. ;  22 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-335) and index. 
<br/><br/>What I learned about school reform -- Hijacked! How the standards movement turned into the testing movement -- The transformation of District 2 -- Lessons from San Diego -- The business model in New York City -- NCLB: measure and punish -- Choice: the story of an idea -- The trouble with accountability -- What would Mrs. Ratliff do? -- The billionaire boys' club -- Lessons learned -- Epilogue: School and society. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0465036589 9780465036585 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Public schools--United States.<br/>Educational accountability--United States.<br/>Educational tests and measurements--United States.<br/>School choice--United States.<br/>Educational change--United States.<br/>Financiación de la educación.<br/>Educación--Aspectos económicos
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>LA 217.2  / R256d 2016 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>379.1