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Ascher, Carol was born on August 15, 1941 in Cleveland. Daughter of Paul and Ellen Bergman.
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Simone de Beauvoir: A Life of Freedom
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Hard Lessons: Public Schools and Privatization (Twentieth Century Fund Report)
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This book, the second in the Twentieth Century Fund's series of studies on the privatization of public services, finds that current arguments for privatizing schools are based on wishful thinking. After examining what the actual experience has been with privatization around the country, Hard Lessons concludes that the promise of saving money and improving educational quality through privatization is, at minimum, being oversold. While this report is likely to be disputed by those who have a strong attachment to the notion that privatizing always improves output--and by those with a financial stake in the for-profit school " industry" --it will be an important part of the ongoing debate. The report, which focuses on big city schools, argues that while the magic wand of privatization must be abandoned, the efforts to solve the problems facing our nation's urban schools must continue; there are hard questions to be asked, new solutions to be tried, and the case must continually be made for new resources for our public schools, even in today's political climate.
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Carol Ascher
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Carol Ascher, American Anthropologist. Recipient Spencer Research award Spencer Foundation, Chicago, 1995, Creative Artists award New York Foundation for the Arts, 1995, Literary award Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, New York City, 1996, Fiction award New York Creative Artists Public Svc., 1984. Member Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association, Authors Guild.
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Education
Bachelor in Anthropology, Barnard College, 1963; Doctor of Philosophy in Anthropology and Education, Columbia University, 1972.
Career
Senior research associate Institute for Urban and Minority Education,, Education Clearinghouse on Urban Education, New York City, 1979-1994;
senior research associate, Teacher's College/Columbia University, New York City, 1979-1994;
senior research associate, Institute for Edition and Social Policy/New York University, New York City, since 1995. Consultant ASCD, Ednl. Testing Svc., Princeton, New Jersey, National Commision on Testing and Public Policy, National Urban League, New York City Board Education, Urban Supts.
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Hard Lessons: Public Schools and Privatization (Twentieth Century Fund Report)
(This book, the second in the Twentieth Century Fund's ser...)
- Simone De Beauvoir a Life of Freedom
- Simone de Beauvoir: A Life of Freedom
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Hard Lessons: Public Schools and Privatization (Twentieth Century Fund Report)
Membership
Member Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association, Authors Guild. F C.
Connections
Married Philip Lopate, January 31, 1964 (divorced June1969). Married Robert White Pittenger, June 19, 1982.
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Recipient Spencer Research award Spencer Foundation, Chicago, 1995, Creative Artists award New York Foundation for the Arts, 1995, Literary award Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, New York City, 1996, Fiction award New York Creative Artists Public Svc., 1984.Recipient Spencer Research award Spencer Foundation, Chicago, 1995, Creative Artists award New York Foundation for the Arts, 1995, Literary award Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, New York City, 1996, Fiction award New York Creative Artists Public Svc., 1984.