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Left Back: A Century of Battles over School Reform
Author: Diane Ravitch
(Paperback, 2001)
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From a historian's perspective, Ravitch examines the constant debates about pedagogy, standards, and...
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Synopsis
From a historian's perspective, Ravitch examines the constant debates about pedagogy, standards, and curricula that have surrounded the American educational system throughout the 20th century. A New York Times Notable Book for 2000.
| Size | | Height: | 8.3 in | | Width: | 5.5 in | | Thickness: | 1.5 in | | Weight: | 17.6 oz |
Industry Reviews
"An incisive examination."
Storr
"Professor Ravitch's account of the failures of assorted reforms over the past century has only one flaw, but it is potentially fatal. Her account is so deftly done, and so cruelly accurate about the shortcomings of assorted progressive educators, that is sometimes seems that everything wrong with American public schools is to be laid at the door of progressive education."
New York Review of Books - Alan Ryan (02/22/2001)
"The decline and fall of [the belief that the right schools can overcome many social problems] is a long, sad story...which Ms. Ravitch recounts with concision and panache."
Wall Street Journal - Joseph Adelson (09/18/2000)
"Ravitch's views on education--characterized by some as moderate-conservative--tend to be forceful and clear: she has little patience for pedagogical approaches that coddle students or in other ways circumvent the difficult but, in her view, essential work of making sure that all children master an "academic curriculum"....
Atlantic Monthly (11/01/2000)
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