Taking back school reform
Ravitch & Rose via email
Mike Rose and Diane Ravitch connected in L.A. during her book tour and continued their discussion of school reform issues via email.
Rose: I think a good place to start is with NCLB. That law was driven by a masterful rhetoric that casted dissent from its agenda as “the soft bigotry of low expectations.” There can be “no excuses” for the low performance of poor, immigrant, and racial and ethnic minority kids, as measured by the tests NCLB supported. Currently, some other school reform advocates, including