After completing the weekly readings, provide a thorough response in your own words to the weekly questions posted below. Please make sure you submit a one-word document with all your answers. A minimum of 550 words and a maximum of 700 words (font size 12, single-spaced) are required for each complete assignment. Please follow APA format in your work. Please remember to include one or two sentences identifying the habits of mind (Links to an external site.)you have used to promote the reflection of the readings.
- In chapter 11, the final argument of this chapter is that the present reforms are not only ineffective; they threaten the very existence of public schooling. Connect this final thought to the title of the book. If the present reforms hold the potential for death of public schooling, wherein lies the potential for life?
- The Life and Death of the Great American School System,
- Chapter 11
Ravitch, D. (2011). Lessons Learned. In The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education. Revised and Expanded Ed. (pp. 223 – 242). Pennsylvania: Basic Books.