Reign of Error The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools

Diane Ravitch

eBook - 2013

From one of the foremost authorities on education in the United States, former U.S. assistant secretary of education, “whistle-blower extraordinaire” (The Wall Street Journal), author of the best-selling The Death and Life of the Great American School System (“Important and riveting”—Library Journal), The Language Police (“Impassioned . . . Fiercely argued . . . Every bit as alarming as it is illuminating”—The New York Times), and other notable books on education history and policy—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 fro...m our public schools.​In Reign of Error, Diane Ravitch argues that the crisis in American education is not a crisis... more