Thursday, February 10, 2011

Diane Ravitch: Keynote address for Parents Across America’s February 7th event (VIDEO) | Democratic Education: A community-based approach to life and learning

Diane Ravitch: Keynote address for Parents Across America’s February 7th event (VIDEO) | Democratic Education: A community-based approach to life and learning

Diane Ravitch: Keynote address for Parents Across America’s February 7th event (VIDEO)

2011 FEBRUARY 10

Parents Across America, a new nationwide organization of parents opposing education deform, held its inaugural event in New York City on February 7, 2011 with Diane Ravitch as the keynote speaker. Here, Diane covers the entire range of education reform efforts. What do you think of the talk?

Diane Ravitch (picture from Boston.com)

Diane Ravitch is a historian of education at New York University. She is a non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. She lives in Brooklyn, N.Y.

She has written many books and articles about American education, including: The Death and Life of the Great American School System (Basic Books, 2010), Left