This is a book about choices that have changed the United States from a place “that offered decent opportunity for all the kids in town” to a place that is increasingly divided between those who have almost everything and those who have almost nothing.
This book asks the questions at the root of education: What is teaching? How does it take place? What is the process? And the question at the heart of the matter: How does teaching differ from learning?
Teaching in the American public school system, in another 10 years, could be reduced to a temp job or a micromanaged performance scripted by corporations. Who are the people behind this implosion?
As educational reforms themselves grow ever more strident, standardized and, yes, totalitarian in structure, Diane Ravitch embodies the institutional memory that no totalitarian system can abide.As educational reforms grow ever more strident, Diane Ravitch's new book embodies the institutional memory that no totalitarian system can abide.
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