Comparative Book Review Of Reign Of Error And Fertilizers, Pills, And Magnetic Strips

Comparative Book reviewNameInstitutional affiliation Introduction This paper is a presentation of the thematic comparison between the two books, “Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools” by Diane Ravitch and “Fertilizers, Pills, and magnetic strips: The fate of public education in America” by Glass G. V. Both are concerned with dangers of privatization of public schools. American schools have fallen into the abyss of the chasm for many years, primarily caused by the privatization of the public schools from the myth that public schools are failures. Bills have been passed into laws promoting competition in the education sector and ultimately making education not meeting its targets. Glass analyzes how public schools can change with technological advancement (inventions). These inventions are the ones expressed on the cover (fertilizers to mean agricultural improvements, pills to mean medical advancements and magnetic strips to mean credit systems that are not based on money. Ravitch is an advocate of testing and accountability. She calls privatization movement a hoax, and she is firmly against it. Year after year, the scores fluctuate due to the changes in test items and varying of their difficulty. She points out that the