Diane Ravitch in Sacramento, Continued
In a prior post, I shared two video clips from Diane Ravitch’s speech at the Sacramento Convention Center on January 20th. I managed to record two other portions of the speech, and have embedded those clips below.
In the first clip, I picked up in the middle of a larger segment of the speech in which Ravitch points out that union detractors might have more credibility if they had greater success in areas where they have more influence. Yet, Washington D.C. showed no gains from Michelle Rhee’s brief superintendency, nor do charter schools outperform traditional public schools – especially when student selectivity and attrition are figured into the equation.
In the second clip, Ravitch offers extended remarks about the misuses of standardized tests. In the opening
