Ravitch's New Book Demonstrates She Still Hates Children
Today, Diane Ravitch's Reign of Error came out. Her newest book claims to explore the hoax of privatization and the danger that America's public schools are facing. Sadly, Diane's new book is just another misguided screed aimed at the hedge fund managers and education reformers who seem to be the only people who still care about our country's children.
While I didn't actually read Ravitch's book, I think I've gotten a pretty good feeling for what it's about by reading the cover which is widely displayed on line and several negative comments from people I admire for their no excuses approach to education reform and this unfortunately, is where Ravitch comes up short.
Ravitch's very title suggests that privatization is a threat to our nation's public schools. However, to believe that you'd have to believe in crazy conspiracy theories like the somehow the 50 neighborhood schools in Chicago closed this Summer are related to the 50 charter schools that the Chicago Public Schools wants to open up. It seems to me that if privatizers were going to threaten our public schools, we wouldn't be pushing to