March 11, 2010

Diane Ravitch's The Death And Life Of The Great American School System.

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Barack Obama inherited George W. Bush's warnot just in Iraq and Afghanistan, but also in the nation's public schools. Bush's battle plan was to criticize teachers' unions, increase the number of charter schools, and promote testing and accountability thro ugh No Child Left Behind, his signature legislation. Over the past year, Obama has done more than continue to prosecute his predecessor's war. In a surprise to many, he has quietly escalated it, even as the intelligence on which this war was founded has c...

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