Ravitch, Diane

Award-winning author, public intellectual, and former Assistant Secretary of Education Diane Ravitch critiques a lifetime's worth of school reforms and reveals the simple--yet difficult--truth about how we can create actual change in public schools.

Diane Ravitch, the former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education, discusses the state of American public schools and argues against the claim that our public school system is broken and should be privatized.

Diane Ravitch, a one-time supporter of the No Child Left Behind Act, discusses the failures of the system, lowered testing standards, and her concerns for the education system in the United States.

Chronicles the history of education in the twentieth century, discussing which reform policies and ideas have worked and which haven't.

Diane Ravitch, a one-time supporter of the No Child Left Behind Act, discusses the failures of the system, lowered testing standards, and her concerns for the education system in the United States.

A report on the results of a test of 17-year-olds' knowledge of history and literature in the United States.

Classic and modern speeches, essays, poems, declarations, and documents on freedom and human rights worldwide.-Subtitle.

Essays examine major controversies in education such as the use of tests, tuition tax credits, desegration and the quality of American schools.