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The schools we deserve : reflections on the educational crises of our times

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The schools we deserve : reflections on the educational crises of our times / Diane Ravitch.

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Bringing together the noted educational commentator's major essays, this volume sets forth her views on key issues.

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Forgetting the questions: the problem of educational reform -- The schools we deserve -- The continuing crisis: fashions in education -- Bring literature and history back to elementary schools -- American education: has the pendulum swung once too often? -- Scapegoating the teachers -- The meaning of the new Coleman report -- From history to social studies: dilemmas and problems -- Curriculum in crisis: connections between past and present -- Is education really a federal issue? -- 60s education, 70s benefits -- The case of tuition tax credits -- The uses and misuses of tests -- On the history of minority group education in the United States -- Integration, segregation, pluralism -- Desegregation: varieties of meaning -- Color-blind or color-conscious? -- Politicization and the schools: the case of bilingual education -- A good school -- On thinking about the future -- Prospects.

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