Ravitch calls Milwaukee's voucher system, NCLB a failure
Well-known education researcher, professor and critic Diane Ravitch plans to tell a crowd at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee tonight that their city's system for offering poor children publicy funded vouchers to attend private schools has been a failure.
"Everyone has sort of given up on Milwaukee and Cleveland," she said, referring to the only other Midwestern city that has a similar voucher program. "The studies of vouchers here have proven they don't make a difference. The researchers used to have a huge debate ... and now there seems to be a consensus on both sides: no bigger gains in voucher schools than in public schools."
And about those reforms that the state's largest teachers' union just embraced? Performance pay and student-assessment driven teacher evaluation systems, which are also being championed by reformers
