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Results tagged “Diane Ravitch”
Diane Ravitch: "The Dominant Narrative" (La Narrativa Dominante)
What I found myself wishing while she talked was that she and many of her colleagues who share unique knowledge and beliefs about what real public education reform should look like (Charles Kerchner, Lois Weiner, Pablo Noguera, Jonathan Kozol, and others) would escape the ivory tower long enough to use their combined and fleeting celebrity to help organize a national public education reform movement. Such a movement, driven by data and the real life daily experience of "4 million classroom teachers supported by their families" would no longer be a topic or constituency that the presently hijacked media in this country could continue to ignore.
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09 2010
How Testing And Choice Are Undermining Education
In what more and more appears like a reverse
Renaissance -- aka self-inflicted Dark Ages -- those in power seem to
be seeking the destruction of public education, so that the reflective
thought necessary to question and hold accountable the greedy
leadership of this country will no longer exist. In The Death and Life of the Great American School System - How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education, Diane Ravitch
concisely analyzes the very real threat to a viable constitutional
democracy that consciously chooses to vest power in an educated citizenry. Beyond the strength of the arguments
she makes in questioning the much touted educational reform we
constantly hear about in the media is the fact that this politically
conservative educator is coming up with the same critiques that
politically progressive people have leveled at constantly changing
public education reforms that never seem to come to fruition in any
measurable way, except in the profits that these reforms seem to
generate for everyone except the students.
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03 2010
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