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Left Back: A Century of Failed School Reforms by Diane Ravitch
Simon & Schuster · 2000 · 555 pages · $30.00 Reviewed by Robert Holland In his 1996 book, The Schools We Need and Why We Don’t Have Them, E.D. Hirsch categorized and then proceeded to demolish the doctrines of progressive education that hold American education in thrall. Hirsch exposed the intellectual shallowness behind such notions [...]
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