In this Sunday's Washington Post one?will find Diane Ravitch's selection of three books that ?have the power to change the national discussion of what now passes for ?school reform.'? And the winners are:
- Linda Darling-Hammond's The Flat World and Education: How America's Commitment to Equity Will Determine Our Future, about which Ravitch writes, ?Finland, the highest-performing nation, has not relied on testing and accountability to achieve its current status.?
- Barbara Torre Veltri's Learning on Other People's Kids: Becoming a Teach for America Teacher, about which Ravitch writes, ?If American education has a sacred cow, it is Teach for America . . . While she [Veltri] admires the young people who join the program, she raises important questions about the value of placing unprepared teachers in classes with the nation's neediest children.?
- Richard Rothstein's Grading Education: Getting Accountability Right, about which Ravitch writes, ?Rothstein and his colleagues explain in plain language why current accountability policies, which focus only on basic skills, are making education worse, not better, by narrowing the curriculum.?
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