diane ravitch

Why the Opt-Out Movement Is Crucial for the Future of Public Education

By Diane Ravitch Jul 11, 2016 Communities have seen their schools labeled “failing,” based on standardized test scores, and taken over by the state or national corporate charter chains. The most powerful tool that parents have to stop this madness is to refuse to allow their children to take the tests. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Public Education Advocates Are Wary of the Democratic Establishment, and Here’s Why

By Deirdre Fulton / Common Dreams Jul 8, 2016 "How about signaling a new direction for federal education policy, one that promises to support schools and educators, not to punish them?" a leading public education campaigner asks. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Diane Ravitch Reviews ‘Reign of Error’ Review: ‘Beautiful’

Staff / Truthdig Dec 18, 2013 It's always nice when, tasked with writing a book review involving a key figure in a certain field of which one is well acquainted, one ultimately has good things to say about the book in question. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Reign of Error

By Patrick Walsh Dec 6, 2013 As educational reforms themselves grow ever more strident, standardized and, yes, totalitarian in structure, Diane Ravitch embodies the institutional memory that no totalitarian system can abide.As educational reforms grow ever more strident, Diane Ravitch's new book embodies the institutional memory that no totalitarian system can abide. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Facing the Beast: What Broke American Education?

BLANK Sep 20, 2013 Two new books about the woes of public education stake out opposing views of the problems, and the solutions, all wrapped up for you in this New York Review of Books essay review. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Privatizing Education in Chicago

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig May 28, 2013 The Chicago Board of Education voted last week to close 50 of the city's public schools as part of Mayor Rahm Emanuel's plan to save more than $500 million, or half the district's deficit. Some 30,000 students will be affected, about 90 percent of them African-American. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Taking ‘Bad Teacher’ to School

Marcia Alesan Dawkins / Truthdig Jun 27, 2011 Let's be honest Teachers don't get into the profession for the money Nowadays they don’t get into the profession for respect either So why do they do it?Let's be honest. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )