Diane Ravitch debunking claims of 'miracle' schools and challenges New York Times editorial praise for New Orleans's 'turnaround'
Diane Ravitch - October 18, 2011
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[Substance Editor's Note: The following was blogged to Education Week's blog on October 18, 2011 and is shared here with our readers. Long time Substance readers will not that nearly a decade ago, Substance joined with Gerald Bracey, now deceased, in challenging the claims by researchers for the American Enterprise Institute that it was possible to invoke through "standards and accountability" a "No Excuses" model for corporate test-based school reform. An essay by George N. Schmidt appeared in Phi Delta Kappan (before they sold out to the Broad Foundation) debunking the claims on behalf of the "No Excuses" schools in Chicago. Subsequently, the "No Excuses" crowd claimed a similar discovery for California, which was also debunked easily. Substance is heartened that Diane Ravitch and her associates are going to provide regular fact checking whenever "miracle" schools are rolled out by the corporate apologists in the bourgeois media, and we hope all of
