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In new book, Ravitch recants long-held beliefs
- 03-05-2010
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By Debra Viadero/Education Week
Once a passionate advocate for injecting greater competition and accountability into the U.S. education system, the New York University scholar Diane Ravitch realized three years ago that her views had evolved to a point where she was contradicting herself on a regular basis. Like any good historian, she decided to set the record straight. Her newest book, The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education, which was published this week by Basic Books, is the result of that effort. In 308 pages, it lays out the reasons for Ms. Ravitch’s about-face on charter schools, school choice, and other market-oriented reform strategies in education, and explains why she no longer supports the federal No Child Left Behind Act and other efforts designed to hold schools and teachers accountable for their students’ test results. (more...)
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