What Would Diane Ravitch Say?:
What Would Diane Ravitch Say?
Diane Ravitch, the former assistant U.S. secretary of education, tells Miller-McCune what she thinks about No Child Left Behind now.
Principal Sarah Ali, right, joins a third-grade teacher and a literacy intervention specialist to review student progress at Aspire Antonio Maria Lugo Academy in Southern California. (Melinda Burns)
August 22, 2011 • By
Melinda Burns •
In their embrace of testing, Sparks Middle School, Aspire Antonio Maria Lugo Academy and Wilmington Middle School reflect the data-driven approach to education that has dominated American schools since the
No Child Left Behind Act was approved in 2001.
These schools swear by their system, but it’s a trend that many reformers decry, among them
Diane Ravitch, the former assistant U.S. secretary of education. Ravitch, who initially supported No Child, now says the mandate for standardized testing is “part of the sickness of American
