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Video: Leading voices on national education reform debate | NOLA.com

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Video: Leading voices on national education reform debate

Published: Tuesday, July 19, 2011, 2:51 PM Updated: Tuesday, July 19, 2011, 2:51 PM

Diane Ravitch, an education historian at New York University and Wendy Kopp, the founder of Teach for America, sat down for a discussion on education reform a few weeks ago at the Aspen Ideas Festival.

These are two of the leading voices nationally on the types of education reforms that have had such a dramatic effect on schools in New Orleans over the past five or six years.

Ravitch, author of "The Death and Life of the Great American School System,