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Reform critic speaking in Hub City today - The Independent Weekly

Reform critic speaking in Hub City today - The Independent Weekly:

Reform critic speaking in Hub City today

Written by Heather Miller
Thursday, March 01, 2012

diane_coverDiane Ravitch, a distinguished education writer, researcher and outspoken critic of charter schools, vouchers and other reform measures Gov. Bobby Jindal is touting, is scheduled to address attendees of the Louisiana School Boards Association annual conference at the Cajundome Thursday afternoon.

Ravitch, who served in the U.S. Department of Education under former President George Bush, is the author of “The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education,” a March and April 2010 New York Times best-seller that gives Ravitch’s take on test scores,