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Diane Ravitch: Charter schools won't save the school system
- 04-22-2010
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U.S. News & World Report
Charter schools won't save the American school system, says Diane Ravitch, a historian of education at New York University who worked in the first Bush administration as assistant secretary of education. In her new book, The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education, Ravitch argues that charter schools do little more than skim off the most motivated students, while giving crooks a chance to squander tax dollars on big salaries for administrators. What schools need now, Ravitch says, is a return to a curriculum that includes American history, civics, art, and music rather than the current obsession with skills testing. (more...)
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