Slaying Goliath: The Passionate Resistance to Privatization and the Fight to Save America’s Public Schools, by Diana Ravitch (2020) is a revolutionary text that exposes corporations’ attempts to eliminate public education and replace it with privatized schools. After reading the assigned chapters from the Ravitch text, all students should respond to each of the following questions with substantial responses.
Chapter One: Disruption Is Not Reform!
According to Ravitch, what is the agenda of the Disrupters?
Does Ravitch believe that the public schools are failing and is the reform working?
According to Ravitch, what have been the consequences of the Disrupter’s actions toward education?
According to Ravitch, how are the Disrupters of today different than those of 30 years ago?
According to Ravitch, how can we best promote academic outcomes for young people?
Chapter Two: The Odious Status Quo
According to Ravitch, was “No Child Left Behind” (GW Bush) based on the “Texas miracle” an illusion? How does she describe this?
According to Ravitch, what was the theory of action behind No Child Left Behind (NCLB)?
According to Ravitch, how did Obama’s Race to the Top compare with Bush’s NCLB
Chapter Three: What Do the Disrupters Want?
According to Ravitch, who are the Disrupters? Name and describe them.
According to Ravitch, have virtual schools delivered on the promise personalized learning to every student? Discuss the issues presented by Ravitch regarding virtual schools?
According to Ravitch, what do the disrupters want and why are such very wealthy people spending so much money to disrupt and privatize public education while ignoring the income inequality and wealth inequality that were eating away at the vitals of American society?
Why would Disrupters want to disrupt the lives of our children?
Copy all the questions for the assignment, paste them into a Microsoft Word document, and respond to them all with substantial responses (approximately 125 words for each question)
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