The Great School Wars: A History of the New York City Public Schools

Named one of the Ten Best Books about New York City by the New York Times

Author: Diane Ravitch
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 07/14/2000
Pages: 488
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.51lbs
Size: 8.97h x 5.92w x 0.98d
ISBN: 9780801864711

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2001 pg. 180

About the Author

Diane Ravitch is Research Professor in the School of Education at New York University and holds the Herman and George R. Brown Chair in Education Studies at the Brookings Institution. She was an assistant secretary in the U.S. Department of Education, and she serves on the National Assessment Governing Board. Her publications include Learning from the Past: What History Teaches Us about School Reform and City Schools: Lessons from New York (both available from Johns Hopkins), The Troubled Crusade: American Education, 1945-1980, and Left Back: A Century of Failed School Reforms (forthcoming).

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