Is Diane Ravitch a Hayekian?
Adam Ozemik has a really good piece on Diane Ravitch up at The Atlantic, noting the common thread between ‘old’ and ‘new’ Diane Ravitch. Dana Goldstein sums up the two:
Once a vocal proponent of No Child Left Behind, charter schools, vouchers, and merit pay for teachers, Ravitch decided sometime around 2006 that there was actually no evidence that any of those policies improved American education. She now believes that the "corporatist agenda" of school choice, teacher layoffs, and standardized testing has undermined public respect for one of the nation’s most vital institutions, the neighborhood school, and for one of society’s most crucial professions: teaching.
Adam notes this old City Journal piece Diane wrote back in 1999. In it, she wrote:
Friedrich A. Hayek explained long ago that centralized "command-and-control" regulation seldom is efficient, because the people at headquarters always have a crucial deficit in information; they never know as much as the many thousands of people who are out in the field. Hayek’s analysis
