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Left back : a century of failed school reforms
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- Creator
- Diane Ravitch
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- First Touchstone paperback edition
- New York : Simon & Schuster, 2001
- ©2000
- Physical Details
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- 555 pages ; 22 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780743203265, 0743203267
- OCLC
- ocm47799986
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 529-531) and index.
- Introduction -- The educational ladder -- A fork in the road -- The age of the experts -- IQ testing : "this brutal pessimism" -- Instead of the academic curriculum -- On the social frontier -- The public schools respond -- Dissidents and critics -- The great meltdown -- The sixties -- In search of standards -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Select bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index