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Diane Ravitch, education historian and author
Experience: Under Republican President George H.W. Bush, Diane Ravitch served as assistant secretary of education in the early 1990s. From 1997 to 2004, she was a member of the board that oversaw the National Assessment of Educational Progress, which administers the same standardized assessment to samples of students across the nation.
She is currently a New York University education professor and Brookings Institution senior fellow. With the recent publication of her book, The Death and Life of the Great American School System, she’s now best known for