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If charter schools are not more successful on average than the public schools they replace, what is accomplished by demolishing public education? What is the rationale for authorizing for-profit charters or charter

If charter schools are not more successful on average than the public schools they replace, what is accomplished by demolishing public education? What is the rationale for authorizing for-profit charters or charter management organizations with high-paid executives, since their profits and high salaries are paid by taxpayers' dollars?

Diane Ravitch

School, Successful, Average

Diane Ravitch (2013). “Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools”, p.219, Vintage

Research does not support any part of Race to the Top

Diane Ravitch

Race, Support, Doe

Of course, all students should learn African history, as they should learn the history of other continents and major civilizations. But this history should be taught accurately and based on the best scholarship, not ideology or politics.

Diane Ravitch

Civilization, Taught, Students

An attack on public education is an attack on democracy.

Diane Ravitch

Democracy, Public Education

"Public Schools for Sale?". Interview with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. March 28, 2014.

In DC, policymakers think that if we can only have high enough standards, tough enough tests, and hold people accountable, we can close the achievement gap. And it hasn't happened. Yet the new law, the Every Student Succeeds Act, is based on the same test-based and market-driven framework and ideology, except it lets the states do it.

Diane Ravitch

Thinking, Law, People

Source: www.motherjones.com

One of the persistent ironies of reform is the impossibility of predicting the full consequences of change.

Diane Ravitch

Change, Reform, Irony

Diane Ravitch (1974). “The great school wars, New York City, 1805-1973: a history of the public schools as battlefield of social change”

Most people believe that schools were good enough when they were children and that they are good enough now. But the dynamic growth of our system of education has spawned serious problems of educational quality.

Diane Ravitch

Children, Educational, Believe