Diane Ravitch will speak to Sac City Teachers Association members
Education historian Diane Ravitch, an outspoken critic of the movement to reward or penalize teachers based on student test scores, will speak to hundreds of teachers at a public event organized by the Sacramento City Teachers Association.
Nine teachers unions pooled resources and money to arrange for Ravitch to speak at the Sacramento Convention Center on Jan. 20. The goal: to give public school teachers some backup.
"She's the other voice to the corporate influence in education," said Erik Knudson, SCTA second vice president. "We've experienced some of those problems in our own district in the last few years, so we thought it would be good for teachers to get an uplifting message."
Ravitch is critical of reform measures pushed by Michelle Rhee and her Sacramento-based StudentsFirst advocacy organization. Rhee made headlines while running Washington, D.C.,