Turn This Ship Around
My good friend, Fr. Joe Zimmerman, chimes in this week with his own review of Diane Ravitch's new book,Reign of Error. Zimmerman blogs at ivyrosary.blogspot.com.
Diane Ravitch has bitten off a lot to chew. She aims to change the direction of ten years of national education policy. She attacks No Child Left Behind, the Bush administration program which she originally promoted. But she attacks with equal vigor the Race to the Top program of Barack Obama’s Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan.
Author of fourteen books on education, she has been awarded the Daniel Patrick Moynihan Prize sponsored by the American Academy of Political and Social Science, and like Moynihan, takes opinions from both sides of the political spectrum seriously.
Reign of Error will surely distress wealthy backers of charter schools and vouchers, starting with with Bill Gates. Today (October 2, 2013) USA Today has an article (p. 8a) by Laura Vanderkam titled “Focus on Teacher Performance: Tougher Common Core highlights importance of well-
