Diane Ravitch: the promise and perils of online teaching | Educating Ourselves:
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.
Last week Ms. Ravitch gave the keynote address at a conference of Computer-Using
