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Schools Matter: Corporate Education Reform: the Status Quo That "never works and never dies"

Schools Matter: Corporate Education Reform: the Status Quo That "never works and never dies":


Corporate Education Reform: the Status Quo That "never works and never dies"


ht to Stan Karp.  From NewJerseynewsroom.com:

BY PAT SUMMERS
NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM
If the growing groundswell against the country’s so-called “education reformers” has a philosophical leader, it is Dr. Diane Ravitch, a gray-haired, soft-spoken and mightily armed education historian and author.
Earlier this week in New Brunswick, Ravitch — now research professor of education at NYU and author most recently of "The Death and Life of the Great American School System" — brought her audience to its feet more than once as she quietly, but with deadly force, demolished the cause and case of