Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Left Back: A Century of Battles Over School Reform

Left Back: A Century of Battles Over School Reform

Ravitch, Diane

Paperback

General EducationGeneral United States HistoryTeaching Instruction

ISBN10: 0743203267
ISBN13: 9780743203265
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: Aug 7 2001
Pages: 560
Weight: 1.57
Height: 1.33 Width: 5.58 Depth: 8.31
Language: English
For the past one hundred years, Americans have argued and worried about the quality of their schools. Some charged that students were not learning enough, while others complained that the schools were not furthering social progress. In Left Back, education historian Diane Ravitch describes this ongoing battle of ideas and explains why school reform has so often disappointed. She recounts grandiose efforts to use the schools for social engineering, even while those efforts diminished the schools' ability to provide a high-quality education for all children. By illuminating the history of education in the twentieth century, Left Back points the way to reviving American schools today.

Also in

General Education

View All