The death and life of the great American school system
by Diane Ravitch · first published 2010
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The author of the blog itself, Diane Ravitch, wrote a very interesting book called "The Death and Life of the Great American School System" on the topic of education reform. I'd encourage HNers to pick it up if this piqued their curiosity.
on “North Carolina teacher's resignation letter” ↗…the gap between low-SES and high-SES kids, a theory which has been soundly disproven. I have no idea about the quality of his other research, but I'd tread with extreme caution there. edit: C.f. The Death and Life of the Great American School System by Diane Ravitch, the paperback edition, esp. chapters 6 - 9 and the epilogue.
on “Problems in Education” ↗Yeah Ravitch talks about this in her Death and Life of the Great American School System book, in Chapter 10 on p. 207. That page and a bunch of the previous pages are available to read for free on Amazon. The basic gist though is that all the research shows that medium-sized high schools…
on “A Student-Data Collector Drops Out” ↗…But about 2006-07, she began to realize that these policies were not working. She began to criticize them, and to criticize the federal “No child left behind” law, with the publication of the book, The Death and Life of the Great American School System, she became one of the most outspoken critics of ideas she once championed. Here's a short article of hers showing how for-profit charters in New York City managed to co-opt the education agenda of the…
on “Academic acceleration in gifted youth: a 35-year longitudinal study” ↗