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The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education

2011· article· en· 1,853 citations· W1549469887 on OpenAlex· 10.26522/brocked.v20i2.172

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Abstract

Diane Ravitch created quite a national stir when The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education came out last year in the United States. Here was a highly respected historian of American education publically recanting her previous advocacy of two main ideas shaping educational reform today: 1) the adoption of free market business practices to make schools more competitive, and 2) the use of standardized testing as the main assessment tool of student learning.

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Venue
Brock Education Journal
Topic
School Choice and Performance
Field
Social Sciences
Canadian institutions
Redeemer University
Funders
Keywords
Standardized testAmerican educationSchool choicePedagogySociologyPolitical sciencePsychologyMathematics educationLaw
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