Diane Ravitch Takes Down Gates Foundation Role in U.S. Education
- WRITTEN BY RICK COHEN
- CREATED ON TUESDAY, 10 JULY 2012 13:22
July 5, 2012; Source: Diane Ravitch’s Blog
If you don’t know who Diane Ravitch is, you should. Be assured that the die-hard advocates of privatized approaches to education reform know this brilliant New York University education professor, who was once seen as generally supportive of the conservative critique of public education, but has drifted to being equally critical of charter schools and school vouchers. (See her 2010 book, The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education, and NPQ articles on herhere, here, here, here, here, here, and here).
The July 5 entry in her personal blog is titled, “I Am Puzzled by the Gates Foundation,” a commentary on a