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PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF
Copyright © 2013 by Diane Ravitch
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Grateful acknowledgment is made to Alfred Publishing Co., Inc. for permission to reprint an excerpt from “Plant a Radish,” lyrics by Harvey Schmidt, music by Tom Jones. Copyright © 1960, 1963 (renewed) by Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt. Publication and allied rights assigned to Chappell & Co. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission of Alfred Publishing Co., Inc.
eBook ISBN: 978-0-385-35089-1
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-385-35088-4
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Ravitch, Diane.
Reign of error : the hoax of the privatization movement and the danger to America’s public schools / Diane Ravitch.
pages cm
ISBN 978-0-385-35088-4
1. Privatization in education—United States. 2. School choice—United States. 3. Education and state—United States. I. Title.
LB2806.36.r38 2013
379.3—dc23
2013015275
Cover design by Jason Booher
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