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School Reform: A Failing Grade by Diane Ravitch | Seattle Education

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School Reform: A Failing Grade by Diane Ravitch

Dr. Diane Ravitch

Diane Ravitch, who was the Assistant Secretary of Education during the Bush Administration, the administration that developed the atrocity called No Child Left Behind, made a heroic and very public u-turn when she realized that the policy that she helped configure was not the answer to the opportunity/achievement gap that was apparent at that time. The ed reform movement, titled Race to the Top, that now flourishes thanks to billionaires