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book review: Diane Ravitch's "The Death and Life of the Great American School System"

I recently fin­ished Diane Rav­itch’s book, “The Death and Life of the Great Amer­i­can School Sys­tem: How Test­ing and Choice are Under­min­ing Edu­ca­tion.” This book has been get­ting quite a bit of atten­tion even out­side of edu­ca­tional cir­cles so I fig­ured I should read it. Rav­itch is an his­to­rian of edu­ca­tion and, viewed as a his­tory,