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Diane Ravitch: the promise and perils of online teaching

By Mary McConnell, Monday, March 19, 2012 at 6:02 pm MST

Diane Ravitch used to be my favorite educational historian (her 2000 book Left Back is still probably the best single account of a century of school reform run amok.) In recent years she’s undergone a conversion to the status quo, which disappoints me. If you want to know why, here’s a link to my review of her later book, The Death and Life of the Great American School System, which was published in the journal  First Things.

http://www.firstthings.com/article/2010/05/apostasy-sells

Last week Ms. Ravitch gave the keynote address at a conference of Computer-Using