We talked last week with education professor Diane Ravitch, one of the leading anti-education reform reformers. (Gross oversimplification of her views: We test kids too much, the real problem with schools is poverty, oh, and charters schools and vouchers are bad.) Ravitch told us, “There’s no evidence that vouchers improve education. There’s no evidence that charters [...]
Controversial education advocate Diane Ravitch is spending the day in Cleveland to talk about school reform. The one-time supporter of school choice and standardized testing now backs teacher unions and says charter schools undermine public education. We caught up with Ravitch to talk about education reform in Ohio.
A few weeks ago we posed some of your questions to education reformer and former Chancellor of D.C. schools, Michelle Rhee. Well now we snagged a few minutes with Diane Ravitch, the anti-Michelle Rhee of sorts. Ravitch is an education historian and the former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education under George H. W. Bush. She’s [...]
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