@article{471302,
      recid = {471302},
      author = {Ravitch, Diane.},
      title = {Reign of error : the hoax of the privatization movement  and the danger to America's public schools /},
      pages = {xii, 396 pages :},
      abstract = {"From the former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education,  "whistleblower extraordinaire" (The Wall Street Journal),  one of the foremost authorities on education and the  history of education in the United States, author of the  best-selling The Death and Life of the Great American  School System; The Language Police ("Impassioned . . .  Fiercely argued . . . Every bit as alarming as it is  illuminating" --The New York Times); and the now-classic  Great School Wars: A History of the New York City Public  Schools--an incisive, comprehensive look at today's  American public schools that argues persuasively against  those who claim our public school system is broken, beyond  repair, and obsolete; an impassioned but reasoned call to  stop the rising "privatization movement" draining  students--and funding--from our public schools, a book that  puts forth a detailed plan of what needs to happen to  schools and with public policy to insure the survival of  this American institution so basic to our democracy"--},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/471302},
}