Quotes by Diane Ravitch

Diane Ravitch

American Education has a long history of infatuation with fads and ill-considered ideas. The current obsession with making our schools work like a business may be the worst of them, for it threatens to destroy public education. Who will Stand up to the tycoons and politicians and tell them so?

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American education has been littered with failed fads and foolish ideas for the past century.

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Congress and state legislatures should not tell teachers how to teach, any more than they should tell surgeons how to perform operations.

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Going to school is not the same as going shopping. Parents should not be burdened with locating a suitable school for their child. They should be able to take their child to the neighborhood public school as a matter of course and expect that it has well-educated teachers and a sound educational program.

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I support charters, but the right kind of charters. I support charters that support kids who have the highest needs. A charter should be targeting students who are in serious trouble. It should serve students who didn’t succeed in public schools when it can help them. Or, at least, charters should agree to accept similar proportions of the kids with the highest needs.

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If charter schools are not more successful on average than the public schools they replace, what is accomplished by demolishing public education? What is the rationale for authorizing for-profit charters or charter management organizations with high-paid executives, since their profits and high salaries are paid by taxpayers’ dollars?

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In DC, policymakers think that if we can only have high enough standards, tough enough tests, and hold people accountable, we can close the achievement gap. And it hasn’t happened. Yet the new law, the Every Student Succeeds Act, is based on the same test-based and market-driven framework and ideology, except it lets the states do it.

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Research does not support any part of Race to the Top

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Sometimes the most brilliant and intelligent minds do not shine in standardized tests because they do not have standardized minds.

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Teachers’ working conditions are students’ learning conditions

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Quotes by Diane Ravitch

Diane Ravitch

American Education has a long history of infatuation with fads and ill-considered ideas. The current obsession with making our schools work like a business may be the worst of them, for it threatens to destroy public education. Who will Stand up to the tycoons and politicians and tell them so?

American education has been littered with failed fads and foolish ideas for the past century.

Congress and state legislatures should not tell teachers how to teach, any more than they should tell surgeons how to perform operations.

Research does not support any part of Race to the Top

Sometimes the most brilliant and intelligent minds do not shine in standardized tests because they do not have standardized minds.

Teachers’ working conditions are students’ learning conditions

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