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24 Mar 2010, 7:16 pm
If Diane Ravitch insists that there's no evidence on a particular point, you can be almost certain that there is. [read post]
28 Nov 2009, 2:12 pm
Diane Ravitch has a new post full of criticisms of charter schools. [read post]
24 May 2017, 9:52 am
Op-Ed: Diane Ravitch, Don’t Like Betsy DeVos? [read post]
3 Mar 2010, 6:16 pm
The Times has an interesting story on Diane Ravitch’s abandonment of many strategies for improving education associated with “conservatives. [read post]
7 Mar 2014, 11:38 am
In a recent post, Diane Ravitch decries the fact that Chicago charters expel a higher percentage of kids than do the other public schools: The data reveal that during the last school year, 307 students were kicked out of charter schools, which have a total enrollment of about 50,000. [read post]
6 Nov 2010, 6:30 pm
Central Los Angeles High School, #9 In The New York Review of Books (November 11, 2010), Diane Ravitch discusses Davis Guggenheim’s film, Waiting for ‘Superman’: The Myth of Charter Schools. [read post]
7 Mar 2014, 11:38 am
In a recent post, Diane Ravitch decries the fact that Chicago charters expel a higher percentage of kids than do the other public schools: The data reveal that during the last school year, 307 students were kicked out of charter schools, which have a total enrollment of about 50,000. [read post]
27 Feb 2017, 4:14 am
(Thanks to Curtis Franks for the pointer to a news story that led me to Diane Ravitch's apt commentary.) [read post]
21 Sep 2009, 9:39 am
In a new post, educational historian Diane Ravitch says, among other things:As I predicted on this blog, President Obama and Education Secretary Arne Duncan are now the spear carriers for the GOP's education policies of choice and accountability. [read post]
12 Dec 2008, 3:58 am
" ---Diane Ravitch Complacency has the ability to lull us into thinking that everything is OK. [read post]
8 Jun 2012, 9:28 am
Diane Ravitch is confused by something that Melinda Gates recently said about the potential of teachers: When Melinda Gates was interviewed on the PBS Newshour on June 4, she said something that surprised me. [read post]
25 May 2007, 3:39 am
Simon, "Radical Constructivism and Cognitive Psychology," in Brookings Papers on Education Policy 1998, Diane Ravitch ed. [read post]
16 Jun 2014, 4:05 am
...for the fact-free nonsense it undoubtedly is: Set aside for the moment that this decision lacks any evidentiary basis. [read post]
25 Jul 2008, 8:02 pm
For Ken DeRosa who is still waiting for a sound reason to expand school services into health and additional social services: I'm still waiting on someone fom Broader, Bolder to offer some evidence supporting the effectiveness of their call to expand public education to cover a myriad of social services.This week both Diane Ravitch and Randi Weingarten offer tepid defenses over at The Education Gadfly.Let's take Ravitch's defense first:I care as much about… [read post]
15 Aug 2014, 6:36 am
One hopes he will answer them. [read post]
23 Jul 2016, 4:14 pm
"Writes Diane Ravitch, the historian of education who was assistant secretary of education in the Bush I administration. [read post]
16 Nov 2016, 2:57 pm
The New York Times recently published a series of articles about the dangers of privatizing public services, the first of which was called “When You Dial 911 and Wall Street Answers. [read post]
20 Jan 2013, 8:32 pm
A comment from Diane Ravitch's blog: Labor Lawyer January 20, 2013 at 8:36 pm Although “liberal” on most political issues, my personal experience strongly supports tracking — based on ability to do the work — as common sense and heterogenous classes as creating unnecessary obstacles to effective instruction. [read post]
7 Jan 2012, 4:18 pm
Did Diane Ravitch tweet 67 times criticizing this purported attempt to compare voucher schools to public schools? [read post]
28 Jul 2010, 11:23 am
So, compared to their traditional school counterparts, their test scores suffer.This is why Diane Ravitch's view of charter schools is so utterly incoherent -- she manages to criticize NCLB for making schools focus too much on test scores even while criticizing charters and vouchers for failing to produce high enough test scores. [read post]
