Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools

by Diane Ravitch

  Crosby S. Noyes Education Campus

  Cuomo, Andrew

  curriculum, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 6.1, 8.1, 11.1, 30.1, 30.2, 31.1

  of charter schools, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 26.1

  in good education

  narrowing of, 2.1, 11.1, 12.1, 12.2, 24.1, 24.2, 28.1

  online, 3.1, 17.1

  parental demands and, 1.1, 24.1

  vouchers and

  Daley, Richard M., 20.1, 20.2, 20.3

  Daniels, Mitch, 3.1, 11.1, 15.1, 19.1

  Darling-Hammond, Linda, 3.1, 3.2, 11.1, 21.1

  data, data systems, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 24.1

  overreliance on and misuse of, 1.1, 32.1

  student, collection of

  test scores and, 11.1, 11.2, 24.1

  data-driven instruction

  D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program (OSP)

  Death and Life of the Great American School System, The (Ravitch), 1.1, 33.1

  Deming, W. Edwards

  democracy, fm1.1, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 7.1, 9.1, 16.1, 16.2, 18.1, 32.1

  purpose of education and, 24.1, 24.2, 24.3, 24.4, 26.1, 33.1

  turnaround vs., 20.1, 20.2, 20.3

  Democrats, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.1, 11.1, 30.1, 33.1

  online schools and

  parent trigger and, 18.1, 18.2

  Rhee and, 15.1, 15.2

  Democrats for Education Reform (DFER), 3.1, 13.1, 16.1, 18.1, 18.2

  Denby, David

  Denmark, 7.1, 9.1, 10.1

  Denver Post, 2.1, 17.1

  deregulation, 3.1, 4.1, 6.1, 16.1, 17.1, 32.1, 33.1

  desegregation, 2.1, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 6.1, 8.1, 19.1, 19.2, 30.1, 31.1, 33.1

  Desert Trails Elementary School

  Designs for Change (DFC), 20.1, 20.2

  Detroit, Mich., 10.1, 15.1, 16.1, 19.1, 30.1

  developmental problems, 1.1, 31.1

  DeVos, Betsy

  Dewey, John, fm1.1, 33.1

  DFER, see Democrats for Education Reform

  Di Carlo, Matthew

  digital learning policy statement

  DiMaggio, Dan

  disabilities, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 10.1, 20.1, 25.1, 30.1, 32.1, 32.2, 33.1, 33.2

  charter schools and, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 16.4, 26.1, 26.2

  good education and

  learning, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1, 22.1, 22.2

  teacher evaluations and, 2.1, 11.1, 11.2

  disability status, tests scores by

  discipline, 4.1, 7.1, 10.1, 10.2, 17.1, 20.1, 31.1, 32.1

  charter schools and, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 16.4, 16.5, 16.6, 26.1

  discrimination, 7.1, 16.1, 26.1, 31.1, 31.2

  Dodge Elementary (renamed Dodge Renaissance Academy)

  dropouts, high school, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 9.1, 9.2, 16.1, 17.1, 18.1, 31.1, app.18

  charter schools and, 26.1, 26.2

  class size and, 25.1, 25.2, 25.3

  drugs, 10.1, 27.1, 31.1

  dual school system, risk of, 26.1, 33.1

  Duane Technology Academy

  DuBois, W. E. B.

  due process, 3.1, 13.1, 13.2

  Duncan, Arne, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 11.1, 11.2, 16.1, 16.2, 30.1, 30.2, 33.1, 33.2

  on international test scores

  poverty effects and

  school closings and, 20.1, 20.2, 20.3

  Dyer, Mrs. Stephen

  Dyer, Stephen

  early childhood education, 6.1, 9.1, 9.2, 23.1, 27.1, 27.2, 30.1

  for children with disabilities

  EB-5 visa

  “ecological correlation fallacy,”

  Economic Policy Institute, 8.1, 9.1

  economics, study of

  economic stimulus funding, 2.1, 30.1

  Economist

  economy, 1.1, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 24.1, 24.2, 28.1, 28.2, 32.1

  college education and, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4

  German

  international tests and, 7.1, 7.2

  Edison Project, 16.1, 17.1

  Edison Schools

  Educated Child, The (Bennett)

  education

  as basic human right

  crisis in, itr.1, 1.1, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.1, 4.2, 7.1, 11.1

  equal opportunity for, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 21.1, 21.2, 24.1, 32.1, 32.2, 33.1

  good, essentials of

  purpose of, itr.1, 4.1, 24.1, 24.2, 26.1

  educational management organizations (EMOs), 16.1, 16.2, 16.3

  Education Alternatives Inc., 16.1, 16.2

  Educational Testing Service

  Education Department, U.S., 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 7.1, 15.1, 15.2, 27.1, 30.1, 33.1

  charter schools and, 16.1, 16.2

  class size and, 25.1, 25.2

  graduation rate and, 8.1, 8.2

  Institute of Education Sciences of

  merit pay and, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4

  NAEP in, see National Assessment of Educational Progress

  Office of Educational Research and Improvement of

  online education and

  TFA and, 14.1, 14.2

  turnarounds and, 20.1, 20.2

  “Education Innovation Summit,”

  “Education Nation,” 4.1, 18.1, 33.1

  Education Reform Now

  Education Writers Association

  Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow (ECOT), 17.1, 17.2

  Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA; 1965)

  elementary education, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 14.1, 15.1, 16.1, 20.1, 20.2, 28.1

  class size in, 25.1, 25.2, 25.3, 32.1

  parent trigger and

  Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation, see Broad Foundation

  Emanuel, Rahm, 16.1, 20.1, 20.2, 33.1

  emergency managers

  EMOs, see educational management organizations

  England, 7.1, 12.1

  English-language learners, see non-English-speaking students

  Entertainment Properties Trust, 16.1, 16.2

  entrepreneurs, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 7.1, 7.2, 33.1

  budget declines as opportunity for

  charter schools and, 1.1, 2.1, 16.1, 16.2, 17.1, 17.2

  NCLB and

  online schools and, 17.1, 17.2

  Entwisle, Doris R.

  equity investors, 2.1, 17.1, 17.2

  Espiritu charter schools

  Fairfax County, Va., 15.1, 17.1

  families, 8.1, 20.1, 23.1, 24.1, 24.2

  achievement gap and, 6.1, 6.2, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 23.1, 31.1

  advantaged, 1.1, 4.1, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 9.1, 10.1, 23.1, 27.1, 31.1, 31.2

  black, 6.1, 23.1

  Catholic

  importance of, 2.1, 11.1, 27.1

  low-income, 9.1, 9.2, 31.1

  middle-income, 9.1, 19.1, 31.1

  poor, 10.1, 23.1, 23.2, 27.1, 31.1, 31.2, 32.1

  reading and, 5.1, 10.1, 11.1

  troubled, 4.1, 4.2

  see also parents

  Fang, Lee

  Fantastiks, The (musical)

  Farley, Todd

  federal funds, 2.1, 2.2, 24.1, 30.1, 30.2, 31.1, 31.2, 33.1

  Race to the Top and, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1, 31.1

  federalism, 30.1, 30.2, 30.3

  Fenty, Adrian, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 17.1, 30.1

  Finland, 8.1, 9.1, 11.1, 23.1, 28.1, 29.1

  international tests in, 7.1, 7.2, 10.1, 11.1, 28.1

  poverty in, 10.1, 10.2, 28.1

  Finn, Chester E., Jr.

  First International Mathematics Study, 7.1, 7.2

  First International Science Study

  Fisher Foundation, 3.1, 16.1

  Florence School District

  Florida, 3.1, 3.2, 11.1, 15.1, 17.1

  charter schools in

  in international tests, 7.1, 7.2

  parent trigger and, 18.1, 18.2

  vouchers in, 3.1, 19.1

  Florida Education Department

  Florida Supreme Court

  “focus” schools, 30.1, 33.1

  Forbes />
  foreign languages, 1.1, 2.1, 12.1, 24.1, 24.2, 24.3

  for-profit online corporations, 3.1, 26.1

  for-profit online universities

  for-profit schools, 3.1, 3.2, 6.1, 15.1, 17.1

  charter, see charter schools, for-profit

  online, 14.1, 17.1, 17.2

  Foundation for Excellence in Education, 3.1, 3.2, 17.1

  France, 9.1, 10.1

  fraud, 1.1, 17.1, 19.1, 26.1, 32.1

  freedom, itr.1, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 3.1, 4.1, 12.1

  academic, 13.1, 13.2

  to choose, 3.1, 4.1

  free market, 3.1, 32.1, 33.1, 33.2

  vouchers and

  see also business; entrepreneurs; privatization

  Friedman, John N., 11.1, nts.1n

  Friedman, Milton, 3.1, 19.1

  Friedman Foundation

  fundamentalists

  funds, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.1, 7.1, 30.1, 31.1

  for Catholic schools

  for charter schools, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 16.4, 16.5, 16.6, 16.7, 16.8, 18.1, 18.2, 26.1, 26.2

  federal, see federal funds

  for online education, 17.1, 17.2, 17.3, 17.4, 17.5, 17.6

  of Rhee, 15.1, 15.2

  of TFA, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 14.4, 14.5, 14.6

  that follow the child, 3.1, 3.2

  for turnaround schools

  vouchers and

  Gabor, Andrea

  Gallistel Language Academy

  Garcia-Roberts, Gus

  Gates, Bill, 4.1, 10.1, 10.2, 13.1, 32.1

  Gates, Melinda, 4.1, 11.1

  Gates Foundation, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.1, 11.1, 13.1, 15.1, 16.1, 18.1, 33.1, 33.2, nts.1n

  class size and

  Common Core and, 3.1, 30.1

  online education and

  Renaissance 2010 and

  in student data collection

  GED

  gender equality, 33.1, 33.2, 33.3

  Georgia, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 32.1

  Georgia Supreme Court

  GERM (global education reform movement)

  Germany, 7.1, 9.1, 10.1, 31.1

  GI Bill of Rights

  gifted students, 11.1, 11.2

  Ginsburg, Alan

  Global Silicon Valley Partners

  Goals 2000

  Gordon, Robert

  Government Accountability Office (GAO)

  grade inflation

  graduation rates

  college, 9.1, 21.1

  high school, see high school graduation rates

  grants, 2.1, 14.1, 17.1, 30.1, 31.1

  school-reform, 3.1, 3.2

  grant writers

  Gray, Vincent

  Great Depression, 4.1, 21.1, 28.1, 30.1

  Great Hearts

  Green Dot

  Greenfield school district

  gross domestic product (GDP), 7.1, 11.1

  Guggenheim, Davis

  Gulen, Fethullah

  Gulen charter schools, 16.1, 16.2

  Hanushek, Eric, 4.1, 11.1, 11.2, 13.1

  Harding, Heather

  Harlem Children’s Zone, 10.1, 16.1

  Harlem Park Community School

  Harry Potter books

  Harvard Magazine

  Harvard University, 14.1, 15.1

  Haslam, Bill

  Hastings, Reed

  Head Start, 23.1, 30.1

  Heal for America (HFA)

  health care, 4.1, 6.1, 9.1, 10.1, 11.1, 14.1, 22.1, 27.1, 31.1

  prenatal, 1.1, 10.1, 10.2, 22.1, 27.1, 27.2

  TFA model and

  Heartland Institute, 16.1, 18.1, 18.2, 19.1

  Hechinger, John, 17.1, 31.1

  Heckman, James, 23.1, 25.1, 28.1

  hedge fund managers, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 6.1, 16.1, 16.2, 17.1, 18.1, 18.2, 32.1

  Heilig, Julian Vasquez

  Henderson, Kaya, 14.1, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3

  Heritage Foundation, 3.1, 16.1, 19.1

  high-income students, 27.1, 28.1, 28.2

  high school graduation rates, 2.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 9.1, 10.1, 19.1, 25.1, 30.1, 33.1

  at charter schools

  desegregation and, 31.1, 31.2

  facts about, 8.1, app.19

  international, 8.2, app.17

  at online schools, 17.1, 17.2, 17.3

  poverty and, 10.1, 10.2, 21.1, 23.1

  high schools, 1.1, 3.1, 4.1, 16.1, 17.1

  class size in, 25.1, 25.2, 25.3, nts.1n

  college compared with, 9.1, 9.2

  graduation requirements for

  testing in

  turnaround and

  Hispanics, 19.1, 20.1, 20.2, 27.1, 28.1

  achievement gap and, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 11.1, 23.1, 28.1

  charter schools and

  college education and, 9.1, 9.2, 21.1

  high school graduation rates and, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4

  NAEP and, 4.1, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 15.1, app.14, app.11, app.12, app.15

  poor, 30.1, 31.1, 31.2

  segregation and, 31.1, 31.2, 31.3

  history, 1.1, 2.1, 5.1, 5.2, 7.1, 9.1, 12.1, 19.1, 30.1, 32.1

  in good education, 24.1, 24.2, 24.3, 24.4

  Hofstadter, Richard

  homeless students, 25.1, 31.1, 32.1

  homeschooling, 16.1, 17.1, 17.2, 17.3, 17.4

  Hoover Institution, 11.1, 16.1, 17.1

  Housing and Urban Development Department, U.S. (HUD)

  Houston, Tex., 11.1, 14.1

  How Children Succeed (Tough), 27.1, 28.1

  Huffman, Kevin

  Humphrey, Tom

  Hurricane Katrina

  Huxley, Aldous

  Illinois, 20.1, 31.1

  see also Chicago, Ill.

  Imagine Schools Inc., 16.1, 16.2

  immigrants, immigration laws, 4.1, 8.1, 11.1, 16.1, 25.1, 33.1, 33.2

  Catholic schools and

  IMPACT, 15.1, 15.2

  inBloom

  incarceration, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 8.1, 10.1, 31.1, nts.1n

  income, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1, 14.1, 15.1, 23.1, 24.1, 28.1, 33.1

  achievement gap, 6.1, 6.2, 14.1, 14.2, 15.1, 17.1, 31.1, 31.2

  effective teachers and, 11.1, nts.1n

  higher education and, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 9.5, 10.1

  inequality, 6.1, 31.1

  summer programs and

  India, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3

  Indiana, 3.1, 7.1, 11.1, 15.1, 32.1, 32.2, 32.3, 33.1

  charter schools in, 3.1, 16.1, 16.2

  vouchers in, 3.1, 19.1

  industrial education, 4.1, 30.1

  innovation, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 16.1, 17.1, 17.2, 20.1, 26.1, 32.1, 32.2

  higher education and

  “smart capital” and

  social

  see also technology

  Innovation Ohio

  Institute of Medicine

  Institute on Race and Poverty

  integration, see desegregation

  International Baccalaureate programs

  international test scores, 2.1, 4.1, 11.1, 22.1, 28.1, 28.2

  facts about

  poverty and

  Internet, 17.1, 17.2, 17.3, 17.4, 32.1

  investment, 2.1, 3.1, 4.1, 17.1, 26.1

  in charter schools, 16.1, 16.2, 26.1

  in early childhood education

  in higher education, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4

  IQs, 23.1, 28.1

  Israel, 7.1, 9.1

  Jackson, John

  Janey, Clifford

  Japan, 7.1, 9.1, 11.1

  in international tests, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4

  Jez, Su Jin

  Jindal, Bobby, 3.1, 3.2, 10.1, 14.1, 19.1, 32.1

  jobs, 4.1, 4.2, 6.1, 8.1, 8.2, 14.1, 24.1, 24.2, 25.1, 28.1, 32.1

  higher education and, 9.1, 9.2

  security of, 13.1, 13.2

  Johns Hopkins University

  Johnson, Kevin

  Johnson, Lyndon B.

  Johnson, Rucker

  Johnston, Michael

  Jones, Tom

  K12 Inc., 16.1, 17.1,
17.2

  Kain, Erik

  Kasich, John, 11.1, 15.1, 17.1, 17.2, 17.3

  kindergarten, 4.1, 6.1, 10.1, 16.1, 28.1, 32.1

  King, Martin Luther, Jr.

  KIPP (Knowledge Is Power Program) charter schools, 3.1, 14.1, 16.1, 16.2

  Kirp, David L.

  Klein, Joel I., 4.1, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1, 13.1, 15.1, 33.1

  online schools and, 17.1, 17.2

  Klein-Rhee manifesto

  Knoxville News Sentinel

  Koch brothers

  Kopp, Wendy, 10.1, 10.2, 14.1, 14.2

  Korea, Republic of (South Korea), 8.1, 10.1, 11.1

  college education in, 9.1, 9.2

  international tests in, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4

  Krugman, Paul

  Ladd, Helen F.

  Lager, William, 10.1, 17.1

  Lakeside School

  Lang, Kevin

  language, 5.1, 6.1, 16.1

  see also foreign languages; non-English-speaking students

  LA’s Best

  La Tijera K–8 school

  Latinos, see Hispanics

  Laura and John Arnold Foundation

  learning disabilities, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1, 22.1, 22.2

  Learning on Other People’s Kids (Veltri)

  LePage, Paul

  Levesque, Patricia, 17.1, 17.2

  Levin, Henry M.

  Levy, Mary

  liberals, liberalism, 1.1, 7.1, 33.1

  libertarians, 16.1, 18.1

  libraries, 1.1, 1.2, 4.1, 4.2, 10.1

  “life-adjustment education,”

  limited-English proficiency, tests scores by

  Lincoln, Abraham

  literature, 1.1, 5.1, 7.1, 24.1, 24.2

  local school council (LSC)

  Los Angeles, Calif., 3.1, 15.1, 16.1, 18.1, 18.2, 32.1, 32.2

  after-school programs in

  Los Angeles Times, 11.1, 18.1, 18.2

  Los Angeles Unified School District

  Louisiana, 3.1, 3.2, 18.1, 32.1, 32.2

  charters in, 14.1, 14.2, 15.1, 16.1, 16.2, 32.1

  TFA and, 14.1, 14.2

  vouchers in, 14.1, 19.1, 32.1

  Loveless, Tom

  low-income status, tests scores by

  low-income students, 20.1, 25.1, 27.1, 28.1, 28.2, 31.1

  summer programs for

  vouchers for, 19.1, 19.2, 19.3

  Luna, Tom

  Luna laws

  Maine, 3.1, 17.1

  Maine Sunday Telegram

  Making the Grades (Farley)

  Malloy, Daniel

  March of Dimes, 22.1, 22.2

  Martin, Trayvon

  Maryland, University of (Baltimore)

  Massachusetts, 2.1, 7.1, 13.1, 13.2, 17.1, 24.1, 32.1, 33.1

  Massachusetts Virtual Academy

  mathematics, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 4.1, 5.1, 7.1, 9.1, 11.1, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 24.1, 24.2, 28.1, 29.1, 30.1, 31.1, 31.2, 32.1