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The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education

EDITORIAL REVIEW: A passionate plea to preserve and renew public education, *The Death and Life of the Great American School System* is a radical change of heart from one of America’s best-known education experts. Diane Ravitch—former assistant secretary of education and a leader in the drive to create a national curriculum—examines her career in education reform and repudiates positions that she once staunchly advocated. Drawing on over forty years of research and experience, Ravitch critiques today’s most popular ideas for restructuring schools, including privatization, standardized testing, punitive accountability, and the feckless multiplication of charter schools. She shows conclusively why the business model is not an appropriate way to improve schools. Using examples from major cities like New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Denver, and San Diego, Ravitch makes the case that public education today is in peril. Ravitch includes clear prescriptions for improving America’s schools: leave decisions about schools to educators, not politicians or businessmen devise a truly national curriculum that sets out what children in every grade should be *learning* expect charter schools to educate the kids who need help the most, not to compete with public schools pay teachers a fair wage for their work, not “merit pay” based on deeply flawed and unreliable test scores encourage family involvement in education from an early age *The Death and Life of the Great American School System* is more than just an analysis of the state of play of the American education system. It is a must-read for any stakeholder in the future of American schooling. EDITORIAL REVIEW: A passionate plea to preserve and renew public education, *The Death and Life of the Great American School System* is a radical change of heart from one of America’s best-known education experts. Diane Ravitch—former assistant secretary of education and a leader in the drive to create a national curriculum—examines her career in education reform and repudiates positions that she once staunchly advocated. Drawing on over forty years of research and experience, Ravitch critiques today’s most popular ideas for restructuring schools, including privatization, standardized testing, punitive accountability, and the feckless multiplication of charter schools. She shows conclusively why the business model is not an appropriate way to improve schools. Using examples from major cities like New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Denver, and San Diego, Ravitch makes the case that public education today is in peril. Ravitch includes clear prescriptions for improving America’s schools: leave decisions about schools to educators, not politicians or businessmen devise a truly national curriculum that sets out what children in every grade should be *learning* expect charter schools to educate the kids who need help the most, not to compete with public schools pay teachers a fair wage for their work, not “merit pay” based on deeply flawed and unreliable test scores encourage family involvement in education from an early age *The Death and Life of the Great American School System* is more than just an analysis of the state of play of the American education system. It is a must-read for any stakeholder in the future of American schooling.

Tuck Everlasting-Babbitt, Natalie-Classics, Death & Dying, Fantasy & Magic, Juvenile Fiction, Social Issues

Doomed to—or blessed with—eternal life after drinking from a magic spring, the Tuck family wanders about trying to live as inconspicuously and comfortably as they can.  When ten-year-old Winnie Foster stumbles on their secret, the Tucks take her home and explain why living forever at one age is less a blessing than it might seem.  Complications arise when Winnie is followed by a stranger who wants to market the spring water for a fortune . . .

Amazon.com Review

Imagine coming upon a fountain of youth in a forest.  To live forever—isn't that everyone's ideal?  For the Tuck family, eternal life is a reality, but their reaction to their fate is surprising.  Award winner Natalie Babbitt (Knee-Knock Rise, The Search for Delicious) outdoes herself in this sensitive, moving adventure in which 10-year-old Winnie Foster is kidnapped, finds herself helping a murderer out of jail, and is eventually offered the ultimate gift—but doesn't know whether to accept it.  Babbitt asks profound questions about the meaning of life and death, and leaves the reader with a greater appreciation for the perfect cycle of nature.  Intense and powerful, exciting and poignant, Tuck Everlasting will last forever—in the reader's imagination.  An ALA Notable Book.  (Ages 9 to 12)  — Emilie Coulter

Review

"Rarely does one find a book with such prose. Flawless in both style and structure, it is rich in imagery and punctuated with light fillips of humor.  The author manipulates her plot deftly, dealing with six main characters brought together because of a spring whose waters can bestow everlasting life. . .Underlying the drama is the dilemma of the age-old desire for perpetual youth."  —The Horn Book

真幌站前多田便利屋

《真幌站前多田便利屋》讲述的是两个离异男子在担任“便利屋”工作中遇到的大小事件。多田启介在真幌站前开着一间为人排忧解难打杂帮忙的便利屋,这份工作让他作为一个外人踏入很多人的家,并且不管是否情愿都被卷入一些麻烦当中。某年元旦刚过不久,他从客户家出来,在公车站“捡到”高中时代的同学行天春彦,学生时代沉默到怪癖的行天和多田有不为人知的过节,于是多田让无处可去的行天待在自己的事务所兼住家,没想到这一待就是一年又一年。 真幌系列的每本书都是一年间发生的故事,始于元旦终于年末。读者随着两位便利屋接触到形形色色的真幌市民:时而糊涂时而清醒的曾根田老太太、总是嚷嚷着说公交车偷减班次的老冈、自称“哥伦比亚妓女”的露露和海茜、聪明而孤单的小学生由良、左右真幌黑社会的星仔……而在乍看平凡的日常背后,是那些不愿被提及的隐痛,无法独自承担的负荷,渴望有人施加援手的瞬间。便利屋的存在,让人与人之间以奇妙的方式产生联接,于是便有了一桩桩轻快背后潜藏深沉情绪的故事。 ★直木奖获奖作品!让人忍俊不禁的辛酸人生,令人感动不已的艰难现实。 ★盯梢登记、接送孩子、照管女友、修门搬物……奇怪的委托,奇葩的顾客,有困难请找多田便利屋,也许还能顺便找回失落的幸福! ★“真幌站前”系列三部曲首次完整出版!第一部《真幌站前多田便利屋》全新回归。两名心有旧伤的离婚男人,一家致力于解决现实问题又屡遭令人哭笑不得的危机的便利屋,一群生活在东京近郊小城的普通人,演绎幻想之城的真实人生,构筑充满欢笑与泪水,搞怪与温情的戏剧世界,足以治愈孤独,慰藉心灵。 ★两个男人间的关系充满微妙的戏剧张力。操心体质的多田,浪荡疏离的行天,与众不同的重逢,妙不可言的同行。 ★由瑛太和松田龙平主演的同名电影获当年度《电影旬报》十佳之一。

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