- Hardcover: 512 pages
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0195077296
- ISBN-13: 978-0195077292
- Product Dimensions: 23.8 x 16.3 x 3.7 cm
- Shipping Weight: 794 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,568,377 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Preserving the Culture, Dec 17 2006
By Rita Kramer "scholarwriter" - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: The English Reader: What Every Literate Person Needs to Know (Hardcover)
No one's better than educational historian Diane Ravitch at pointing out what's missing from today's schooling and doing something about it. This new anthology brings together poems, stories, songs and other literature that used to be part of the common experience of all educated men and women and have been replaced by second-rate material designed to be easy to read, raising scores without raising knowledge. Nothing in one of today's textbook readers will be remembered for long, while the pages of this book contain phrases, lines, whole paragraphs that touch us, stay in our memories, and connect us with each other through our common knowledge of these classics of our common culture. An excellent gift for any child, parent, teacher, or friend; these selections are sure to resonate and provide lasting pleasures.
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Ravitch and the Defense of Civilization Through Literature, Dec 11 2006
By Ronald M. Isaac - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The English Reader: What Every Literate Person Needs to Know (Hardcover)
This book deserves greater raves than does civilization itself. It is a scrupulous selection of inspired thought and passion as codified in the immortal conveyance of the English language. It is not limited to literature, strictly speaking. It embraces the great legacy of written speech and does not propagandize or promote literary or political trends of thought for their own sake. Michael and Diane Ravitch, who is the greatest personality in contemporary American education and the chief moral force behind reverence for the genius of tradition, have included some of the huge talents of English literature who are in danger of being forgotten because of the new and morbidly relaxed priorities of schools: Carlyle,George Herbert, Carlyle, Spenser, etc.Unlike the books that insinuate themselves into typical classroom "libraries," picked for political correctness but usually lacking literary merit,the specimens chosen by Michael and Diane Ravitch do true honor to the dignity of the great issues of the day, such as feminism. For example, instead of having quotes from Oprah Winfrey or Barbara Streisand represent the feminist current of thought, they have Virginia Woolf and E. Pankhurst, the brilliant British sufragette activist and orator. As an English teacher who is distressed to witness the slipping away of expressive power and with it the authority of history and the human heart, I plead with all the folks reading this review to secure this precious book for yourselves and to work hard to prevail upon school boards and other educational decision makers to use it to provide critical learning nutrition to a starved generation.
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Not your average anthology, Jan 24 2007
By Abigail Pogrebin "Easily-bored reader" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The English Reader: What Every Literate Person Needs to Know (Hardcover)
This is one of those books you think initially think would intimidate and overwhelm you; but from the first word it actually reads like a novel you can't put down. We are all fortunate that the Ravitch team writes so accessibly and engagingly. This book has already become part of my nightly bedtime routine; I look forward to reading a selection every night. "The English Reader" should be in everyone's library -- or at everyone's bedside. It's a lively treasure.
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