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Opinion | Diane Ravitch: putting education reform to the test | Seattle Times Newspaper

Opinion | Diane Ravitch: putting education reform to the test | Seattle Times Newspaper:

Diane Ravitch: putting education reform to the test

Education historian Diane Ravitch has amassed a devoted following, and impressive book sales, with searing polemics about the horrors of education reform. Wade beneath the rhetoric and Ravitch is still a reformer at heart.

Seattle Times editorial columnist


Education historian Diane Ravitch has amassed a devoted following, and impressive book sales, with searing polemics about billionaires privatizing public schools and students tortured by standardized tests.

Ravitch is visiting Seattle, bringing a long lens on American public education, both as a former assistant education secretary under President George H.W. Bush and early leader of the education-reform movement and now as a speaker on the crusade to expose education reform efforts as a sham.

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