Transformation: Diane Ravitch and School Reform

“School reform today is like a freight train, and I’m out on the tracks saying, ‘You’re going the wrong way!’ ”

I’ve always respected Diane Ravitch even as I have often disagreed with her.  And her on-line and ongoing exchanges with Deborah Meier Bridging Differences have been a model of intelligent debate conducted with an informed  civility conspicuously absent from most public discourse.

And now she has written a book that is causing quite the stir. Time to get a copy.

You can read about the controversy in today’s NYTimes: Scholar’s School Reform U-Turn Shakes Up Debate

Photo: Peppe Ragusa

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