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What Would You Ask Diane Ravitch? | StateImpact Ohio

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What Would You Ask Diane Ravitch?

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Education historian Diane Ravitch will be visiting Cleveland this week. What would you like to ask the former Assistant Education Secretary?



A few weeks ago we posed some of your questions to education reformer and former Chancellor of D.C. schools, Michelle Rhee. Well now we snagged a few minutes with Diane Ravitch, the anti-Michelle Rhee of sorts.

Ravitch is an education historian and the former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education under George H. W. Bush. She’s also the author of “The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education.”

Ravitch is perhaps best well known in the education world for changing her mind.

Back when No Child Left Behind was rolled out under