CT News Junkie | OP-ED | Diane Ravitch on School Reform Gone Awry

CT News Junkie | OP-ED | Diane Ravitch on School Reform Gone Awry:

OP-ED | Diane Ravitch on School Reform Gone Awry

by Dianne Kaplan DeVries | Nov 7, 2011 10:54pm
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Posted to: Education, Opinion

DIANNE KAPLAN DEVRIES

“Singing to the choir because the choir needs support,” that’s what Diane Ravitch was doing in Hartford last Wednesday when she spoke to members of the Hartford Federation of Teachers. It was my good fortune to be among the few invited guests and also to enjoy a leisurely conversation with her at HFT headquarters prior to her formal remarks at The Bushnell.

No amount of praise for Ravitch’s intellectual contribution to American public education can begin to do justice to the plain-spoken wisdom of this historian and school reform critic.

Research Professor of Education at New York University, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, and a recipient of countless awards for her careful use of social science research to advance the public good, Ravitch is a prolific author