Schools We Deserve

Diane Ravitch is adjunct professor of history and education at Teachers College, Columbia University.

• * Introduction * Forgetting the Questions: The Problem of Educational Reform * The Schools We Deserve * The Continuing Crisis: Fashions in Education * Bring Literature and History Back to Elementary Schools * American Education: Has the Pendulum Swung Once Too Often? * Scapegoating the Teachers * The Meaning of the New Coleman Report * From History to Social Studies: Dilemmas and Problems * Curriculum in Crisis: Connections Between Past and Present * Is Education Really a Federal Issue? * 60s Education, 70s Benefits * The Case of Tuition Tax Credits * The Uses and Misuses of Tests * On the History of Minority Group Education in the United States * Integration, Segregation, Pluralism * Desegregation: Varieties of Meaning * Color-Blind or Color-Conscious? * Politicization and the Schools: The Case of Bilingual Education * A Good School * On Thinking About the Future * Prospects