Valerie Strauss posted an excerpt from SLAYING GOLIATH about one of its heroes.
SLAYING GOLIATH contains many true stories of individuals and groups who took a stand to defend their schools against the assault of well-funded privatizers. Amy Frogge is a lawyer and a public school parent. She decided to run for the Metro Nashville school board. She had no agenda other than to do her part as a citizen. She was outspent 5-1, but she won. She quickly learned about the struggle for control of the future of the public schools.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
My older for your book is in at Indigo, a Canadian style Barnes and Noble. đź‘Ť
I’ve been reading your book and loved this part. My family and I live in Amy’s district. We have no children, and none of us work in Metro Nashville Public Schools (MNPS). But our property taxes fund the schools, and our neighbors’ children attend them. We voted for Amy both of the times she ran, and we will ALWAYS vote for her no matter how much corporate money funds her opponents. We still believe education is a matter of community, not commodity.
Oh that the nation would thank that one through: Education is a Matter of Community, Not Commodity
My brief review of Slaying Goliath (so far, while I take a little break from grading):
Spot on. The Disrupters are definitely on the way out, clinging like the Soviets in the 1980s to zombie ideas. The Resistance is powerful because while “they have the money, we have the numbers.” There was a review in the New York Times a few days ago that said Slaying Goliath was right about almost everything, but did not treat in a fair and balanced manner “parents of color who choose charters”. But maybe, just maybe it’s not right to appease people who unwittingly harm themselves and others, to condone their actions simply because they are “of color”. It’s not right. Slaying Goliath is fair and balanced.
If I may be critical, Slaying Goliath is powerfully written, but maybe a little too fair and balanced. My students and I are injured victims of twenty years of the Disrupters destructive pay-to-play policies and media campaigns. We have suffered deeply. Diane was very kind to the Disrupters by explaining without visceral outrage how they came to be Disrupters, very kind to be so fair and balanced. As a personal victim of testing and privatization, I would not to my attackers have been so nice.