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4 Dec 2016, 11:47 am
In the same publication, Diane Ravitch’s assessment of two books about school choice covers the recent history of the movement for choice and voucher programs.The Guardian features a list of “notable history books of 2016,” which includes Jon Wilson’s India Conquered: Britain’s Raj and the Chaos of Empire and Philippe Sands’ East West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity .In the Wall St. [read post]
9 Oct 2010, 6:22 am
I don't know why some people (such as Diane Ravitch) act as if all or most charter school students are in category 1. [read post]
12 Mar 2010, 12:25 pm
Here's Diane Ravitch (formerly a staunch defender of testing), speaking at the American Enterprise Institute on March 10: There's a front page story in the Chicago Sun-Times Today about thousands of test scores being erased and altered to raise them. [read post]
10 Mar 2010, 6:02 am
On the heels of the much-publicized change of heart by Diane Ravitch and the accompanying joyful outbursts by anti-testing and anti-accountability people everywhere, we can provide a bit of a reality check from right here in Arkansas. [read post]
31 Aug 2007, 4:15 pm
(See Diane Ravitch's reaction here.) [read post]
21 May 2012, 12:57 pm
Ravitch ought to love this. [read post]
9 May 2012, 4:15 am
" I was a "failure," at least according to America's "education reformers" -- that "odd coalition of corporate-friendly Democrats, right-wing Republicans, Tea Party governors, Wall Street executives, and major foundations" as Diane Ravitch aptly defines them -- because the kids I taught consistently lagged behind their peers in every measure, performing well below grade level, failing state standardized tests. [read post]
13 Jun 2012, 10:24 am
Like Diane Ravitch, Stotsky is seems to believe that David Coleman and Common Core standards are trying to mandate that 50 or more percent of English classes be spent on non-fiction.To quote the Common Core website: Fulfilling the Standards for 6–12 ELA requires much greater attention to a specific category of informational text—literary nonfiction—than has been traditional. [read post]
3 Dec 2017, 12:00 am
” Diane Ravitch’s Big Money Rules covers Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America by Nancy MacLean and The One Percent Solution: How Corporations Are Remaking America One State at a Time by Gordon Lafer, which “meticulously demonstrates how the Koch brothers and the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision of 2010 have influenced elections and public policy in the state”. [read post]
24 Nov 2011, 3:49 pm
Since Horace Mann first rode horseback through New England to sell the idea of tax-supported “common schools” for all children, Americans have dared to dream that public education will instill in our citizenry the many capacities necessary for self-government: critical thinking, civic engagement, tolerance for diversity, an appreciation for the arts and sciences, a knowledge of global affairs, a critical understanding of American history, and the capacity for civil debate.I've said… [read post]
21 Jul 2010, 2:03 pm
The idea of a “charter city” brings to mind some of Diane Ravitch’s critiques of charter schools: The media like to focus on a star charter school, as though one extraordinary school is typical. [read post]
9 Mar 2011, 12:30 pm
" An opponent of charter schools (say, a Diane Ravitch) would cite that finding as if it represented the entirety of the study. [read post]
11 Sep 2011, 2:00 am
") and Diane Ravitch's review of two books on school "reform" (scare quotes are hers). [read post]
13 Jan 2012, 9:11 am
As Diane Ravitch, an education expert who at this point basically lives her life doing penance for having supported NCLB at the time it was passed, wrote in 2010, rounded education has in many schools been abandoned for test preparation focusing on specific tests in narrow subject areas (generally just math and reading, as if those are the only components of an education). [read post]
29 Aug 2012, 2:18 pm
This allows KIPP students not only to spend extra time on reading and math, but to study all of the other subjects that Diane Ravitch says that she wants in a good curriculum. [read post]
29 Apr 2010, 10:21 am
As Louis notes:Opponents of charter schools tend to seize on the principled skeptics like Diane Ravitch, the education historian whose brilliant new book, "The Death and Life of the Great American School System," recently became a best seller.Examining national charter school data, Ravitch concludes that all the fuss over standouts like Harlem Success may be misguided. [read post]
31 May 2007, 10:37 am
" In her alarming book, "The Language Police," education historian Diane Ravitch describes how "sensitivity and bias committees" in our leading publishing houses now routinely expunge from textbooks and standardized tests all mention of potentially upsetting topics. [read post]
11 Mar 2012, 1:00 am
Diane Ravitch covers two books on "How, and How Not, to Improve the Schools" (open access, here). [read post]
19 Jul 2023, 1:33 pm
As Education historian Diane Ravitch explained, “[Relay] has no scholars, no researchers, no faculty other than charter teachers. [read post]
8 Mar 2010, 7:50 am
” By emphasizing broad theories of learning rather than the particular work of the teacher, methods classes and the rest of the future teacher’s coursework often become what the historian Diane Ravitch called “the contentless curriculum. [read post]
