博客作者本人 Diane Ravitch 写过一本关于教育改革非常有意思的书，叫《The Death and Life of the Great American School System》。如果这勾起了 HN 网友的好奇心，我很建议大家找来读读。
The author of the blog itself, Diane Ravitch, wrote a very interesting book called "The Death and Life of the Great American School System" on the topic of education reform. I'd encourage HNers to pick it up if this piqued their curiosity.
……低 SES（社会经济地位）和高 SES 孩子之间的差距，这一理论早就被彻底推翻了。我不知道他其他研究的水准如何，但在这方面我建议极度谨慎。edit：参见 Diane Ravitch 写的《The Death and Life of the Great American School System》平装版，尤其是第 6 至 9 章以及结语。
…the gap between low-SES and high-SES kids, a theory which has been soundly disproven. I have no idea about the quality of his other research, but I'd tread with extreme caution there. edit: C.f. The Death and Life of the Great American School System by Diane Ravitch, the paperback edition, esp. chapters 6 - 9 and the epilogue.
对，Ravitch 在她的《Death and Life of the Great American School System》一书里谈过这个，在第 10 章第 207 页。那页以及前面的好几页在亚马逊上都可以免费试读。不过核心要旨是，所有的研究都表明中等规模的高中……
Yeah Ravitch talks about this in her Death and Life of the Great American School System book, in Chapter 10 on p. 207. That page and a bunch of the previous pages are available to read for free on Amazon. The basic gist though is that all the research shows that medium-sized high schools…
……但在 2006-07 年左右，她开始意识到这些政策根本行不通。她开始对此提出批评，并抨击联邦的“不让一个孩子掉队”（No child left behind）法案。随着《The Death and Life of the Great American School System》一书的出版，她成了对自己曾经拥护的那些理念最直言不讳的批评者之一。这里有她写的一篇短文，展示了纽约市的营利性特许学校是如何成功绑架了教育议程的……
…But about 2006-07, she began to realize that these policies were not working. She began to criticize them, and to criticize the federal “No child left behind” law, with the publication of the book, The Death and Life of the Great American School System, she became one of the most outspoken critics of ideas she once championed. Here's a short article of hers showing how for-profit charters in New York City managed to co-opt the education agenda of the…
博客作者本人 Diane Ravitch 写过一本关于教育改革非常有意思的书，叫《The Death and Life of the Great American School System》。如果这勾起了 HN 网友的好奇心，我很建议大家找来读读。
The author of the blog itself, Diane Ravitch, wrote a very interesting book called "The Death and Life of the Great American School System" on the topic of education reform. I'd encourage HNers to pick it up if this piqued their curiosity.
……低 SES（社会经济地位）和高 SES 孩子之间的差距，这一理论早就被彻底推翻了。我不知道他其他研究的水准如何，但在这方面我建议极度谨慎。edit：参见 Diane Ravitch 写的《The Death and Life of the Great American School System》平装版，尤其是第 6 至 9 章以及结语。
…the gap between low-SES and high-SES kids, a theory which has been soundly disproven. I have no idea about the quality of his other research, but I'd tread with extreme caution there. edit: C.f. The Death and Life of the Great American School System by Diane Ravitch, the paperback edition, esp. chapters 6 - 9 and the epilogue.
对，Ravitch 在她的《Death and Life of the Great American School System》一书里谈过这个，在第 10 章第 207 页。那页以及前面的好几页在亚马逊上都可以免费试读。不过核心要旨是，所有的研究都表明中等规模的高中……
Yeah Ravitch talks about this in her Death and Life of the Great American School System book, in Chapter 10 on p. 207. That page and a bunch of the previous pages are available to read for free on Amazon. The basic gist though is that all the research shows that medium-sized high schools…
……但在 2006-07 年左右，她开始意识到这些政策根本行不通。她开始对此提出批评，并抨击联邦的“不让一个孩子掉队”（No child left behind）法案。随着《The Death and Life of the Great American School System》一书的出版，她成了对自己曾经拥护的那些理念最直言不讳的批评者之一。这里有她写的一篇短文，展示了纽约市的营利性特许学校是如何成功绑架了教育议程的……
…But about 2006-07, she began to realize that these policies were not working. She began to criticize them, and to criticize the federal “No child left behind” law, with the publication of the book, The Death and Life of the Great American School System, she became one of the most outspoken critics of ideas she once championed. Here's a short article of hers showing how for-profit charters in New York City managed to co-opt the education agenda of the…