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
Slaying Goliath: The Passionate Resistance to Privatization and the Fight to Save America's Public Schools

Slaying Goliath: The Passionate Resistance to Privatization and the Fight to Save America's Public Schools

Ravitch, Diane

Paperback

General EducationGeneral Political Science

Currently unavailable to order

ISBN10: 0525564764
ISBN13: 9780525564768
Publisher: Vintage
Published: Sep 22 2020
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.10 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
From one of the foremost authorities on education in the United States, Slaying Goliath is an impassioned, inspiring look at the ways in which parents, teachers, and activists are successfully fighting back to defeat the forces that are trying to privatize America's public schools.

Diane Ravitch writes of a true grassroots movement sweeping the country, from cities and towns across America, a movement dedicated to protecting public schools from those who are funding privatization and who believe that America's schools should be run like businesses and that children should be treated like customers or products.

Slaying Goliath is about the power of democracy, about the dangers of plutocracy, and about the potential of ordinary people--armed like David with only a slingshot of ideas, energy, and dedication--to prevail against those who are trying to divert funding away from our historic system of democratically governed, nonsectarian public schools. Among the lessons learned from the global pandemic of 2020 is the importance of our public schools and their teachers and the fact that distance learning can never replace human interaction, the personal connection between teachers and students.

Also from

Ravitch, Diane

View All

Also in

General Political Science

View All