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Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools
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About Reign Of Error: The Hoax Of The Privatization
Product Description From one of the foremost authorities on education in the United States, former U.S. assistant secretary of education, an incisive, comprehensive look at today’s American school system that argues against those who claim it is broken and beyond repair; an impassioned but reasoned call to stop the privatization movement that is draining students and funding from our public schools. In a chapter-by-chapter breakdown she puts forth a plan for what can be done to preserve and improve our public schools. She makes clear what is right about U.S. education, how policy makers are failing to address the root causes of educational failure, and how we can fix it. Review “The most clear-headed and influential critic of privatization is Diane Ravitch, who has earned a reputation as an independent thinker. Refusing to embrace the formulas of left and right, she attacks politically correct speech codes as intelligently as she criticizes the free-market faith in competition. She has also been willing to change her mind in public: at one time an advocate of standardized testing, she is now a skeptic. And this skepticism animates her broader critique in Reign of Error, a book that dispels the clouds of reform rhetoric to reveal the destructiveness of the privatization agenda.” —Jackson Lear, Commonweal“No matter what side of the debate the reader is on, Ms. Ravitch provides a thought-provoking look at some of the major challenges facing public education today.” —Pittsburgh Post-Gazette “Those who have grown increasingly alarmed at seeing public education bartered off piece by piece, and seeing schools and teachers thrown into a state of siege, will be grateful for this cri de Coeur—a fearless book, a manifesto, and a cry to battle.” —Jonathan Kozol, New York Times Book Review“Ravtich’s critique of the corporate reformers’ manufactured agenda, along with the truly progressive alternatives she offers, shows us a way to begin the long haul toward improving democracy’s classrooms.” —Joseph Featherstone, The Nation“Diane Ravitch [is] arguably our leading historian of primary and secondary education.” —Andrew Delbanco, The New York Review of Books“Ravitch has emerged as the most consistent and searching critic of the contemporary education-reform movement.” —Walter Russell Mead, Foreign Affairs“No education or social issues library should be without this book.” —Diane C. Donovan, California Bookwatch“The best word I can come up with to describe the Ravitch of today is muckraking – reform-minded journalism that aims to expose misconduct and conspiracy…We need public figures like Ravitch to highlight perilous trends (and illuminate promising trends). . . . Reign of Error is a must-read book.” —Sam Chaltain, Education Week“[Ravitch] presents real solutions, not only to improve our public schools, but also to improve the lives of the children who walk their halls.” —Darcie Chimarusti, NewsWorks “[Ravitch] is a devastating social critic who is well aware of the current political environment. Ravitch is able to skewer this agenda so efficiently because she’s seen it all before. . . . Ravitch’s candor stands in stark contrast to the bromides of the corporate reformers, who have pretty much left any attempts at integration out of their schemes.” —NEA.org (National Education Association)“Read this book and keep it somewhere within arm’s length for the next decade or so.” —Jose Vilson, Educator, writer, activist“Diane Ravitch has emerged as an iconic figure on America’s political landscape. What Daniel Ellsberg was to the Vietnam War, Ravitch has become to the battle raging over public education—a truth-teller with the knowledge that comes from decades on the inside of the education ‘reform’ movement.” —Anthony Cody, Education Week Teacher“Reign of Error is a must-read; brilliant concise and elegant in dissecting and countering the corporate reform myths. . . . You will never find a more succinct and compelling book than Reign of
