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Monday, October 15, 2012

C. M. Rubin: The Global Search for Education: The Education Debate 2012 -- Diane Ravitch

C. M. Rubin: The Global Search for Education: The Education Debate 2012 -- Diane Ravitch:


The Global Search for Education: The Education Debate 2012 -- Diane Ravitch



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"I believe that it is a public duty to provide a good public school with adequate resources and a rich curriculum in every neighborhood." -- Diane Ravitch
Making education a focus during the 2012 election debates is our ongoing goal in The Global Search for Education series. Today I am honored to share the perspectives of Diane Ravitch as we continue the discussion of the issues that we believe will be a priority for the next President of the United States.
Diane Ravitch is Research Professor of Education at New York University and a distinguished historian of American education. She is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington D.C. She served as Assistant Secretary of Education for Research and Improvement in the administration of President George H.W. Bush and was appointed to two terms on the National Assessment Governing Board by the Clinton administration. Ravitch is the author or editor of over 20 books on education, including the national bestseller, The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education (Basic Books).
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"It is NOT the role of the Department of Education to foist its own unproven preferences -- like evaluating teachers by student test scores or charter schools or merit pay -- on states and