Diane Ravitch
Diane Ravitch
Diane Silvers Ravitchis a historian of education, an educational policy analyst, and a research professor at New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. Previously, she was a U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth1 July 1938
CountryUnited States of America
teacher should congress
Congress and state legislatures should not tell teachers how to teach, any more than they should tell surgeons how to perform operations.
school ladders path
The ladder was there, from the gutter to the university, and for those stalwart enough to ascend it, the schools were a boon and a path out of poverty.
children school responsibility
Unless the schools provide our children with a vision of human possibility that enlightens and empowers them with knowledge and taste, they will simply play their role in someone else's marketing schemes. Unless they understand deeply the sources of our democracy, they will take it for granted and fail to exercise their rights and responsibilities.
school fire police
Privatizing our public schools makes as much sense as privatizing the fire department or or the police department
teacher children thinking
Can teachers successfully educate children to think for themselves if teachers are not treated as professionals who think for themselves?
children school curriculum
Testing is not a substitute for curriculum and instruction. Good education cannot be achieved by a strategy of testing children, shaming educators, and closing schools.
school ideas long
American Education has a long history of infatuation with fads and ill-considered ideas. The current obsession with making our schools work like a business may be the worst of them, for it threatens to destroy public education. Who will Stand up to the tycoons and politicians and tell them so?
intelligent shining mind
Sometimes the most brilliant and intelligent minds do not shine in standardized tests because they do not have standardized minds.
books library
Removing books from the library is a no-no.
centered contract kids time
If the contract is centered around more time for the kids, but the kids don't have to show up, it doesn't make sense.