Diane Ravitch

To Toot or Not to Toot? For Teachers, That Is the Question

Rae Pica | Posted 04.11.2012

Rae Pica

Today's educators are under tremendous pressure and are facing a scrutiny unlike anything they or their predecessors have experienced in the past.

In Defense of Optimism in Education

Wendy Kopp | Posted 05.13.2012

Wendy Kopp

Now that there's more concrete evidence than ever before that it is possible to give our nation's most disadvantaged children an excellent education, we have a moral imperative to step up.

No Public Education, No Democracy

Simone Harris | Posted 05.01.2012

Simone Harris

Vultures and their corporations are poised to supply the artificial heart of learning to a wounded public school system they fully intend to finish off. But they won't succeed because our communities are going to fight for our beloved schools.

Educating for Democracy: Fitting the School to the Student

Joel Shatzky | Posted 04.15.2012

Joel Shatzky

What is happening is that the teaching profession will become the least desirable for any bright, capable and idealistic student which will result in the further intellectual impoverishment of public schools.

Diane Ravitch Calls Herself A Voice For Teachers, In A Cruel Reform Movement

Youth Radio -- Youth Media International | Posted 03.26.2012

Youth Radio -- Youth Media International

By: Robyn Gee Professor Diane Ravitch is a big voice in education policy and a huge critic of No Child Left Behind. Yet, as former Assistant Secreta...

School Choice: It's Not for Everyone, and that's the Problem

Maureen Costello | Posted 03.26.2012

Maureen Costello

When we talk about school choice -- which is most often associated with charter schools -- we can't let feel-good words and a glitzy campaign prevent us from providing our children with the best education possible.

Dear Ed Schultz

Timothy D. Slekar | Posted 03.20.2012

Timothy D. Slekar

We could really use your help, Ed. The battle between Chester Upland School District and Gov. Corbett is just a glimpse into the strategic dismantling taking place across the entirety of the American public school system.

The Three Horsemen of Arts Education

Nick Rabkin | Posted 02.14.2012

Nick Rabkin

If more education policymakers begin to recognize the poor returns that school reform has brought, we may, even in this time of deep economic strain, see a new openness to the arts in our schools.

Diane Ravitch and the History That "Reformers" Do Not Know

John Thompson | Posted 02.05.2012

John Thompson

Carey wrote that Ravitch "left a polarized history profession in her wake," as if she did not enter the field at a time when traditional historians were under siege.

Joy Resmovits

Shuttering Education Department Tougher Than Rick Perry Thinks

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 03.09.2012

Though Texas Gov. Rick Perry drew a blank during last week's debate when trying to list the federal agencies he'd shut down as president, he didn't fo...

The Global Search for Education: The 20%

C. M. Rubin | Posted 01.08.2012

C. M. Rubin

The impact of poverty is significant in the outcomes of children in America's education system. So what should we be doing to support the approximate 20 percent of U.S. school children who live in poverty?

Joy Resmovits

What Do Occupy Wall Street And Rand Paul Have In Common?

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 12.24.2011

NEW YORK -- While on Wall Street many protesters decry economic inequality, and in Washington, D.C. debates continue over federal education policy, te...

Occupy Our Schools

Rick Ayers | Posted 12.19.2011

Rick Ayers

Take over these schools. Occupy them. Sit in. 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. We built these schools with our taxes, our labor, our commitment to students and communities. They are not just playthings for overfed business dilettantes.

Cents and Sensibility ... Inside Florida Education

Rita M. Solnet | Posted 12.13.2011

Rita M. Solnet

This unfunded law -- SB 736 -- does absolutely nothing to improve the quality of education. There are many victims of Florida's senseless, wasteful education laws.

My Thoughts From Education Nation

Lee Kolbert | Posted 11.30.2011

Lee Kolbert

How do we account for population, demographics, family support, poverty... oh yeah. We can fire the bad teachers and hire really good ones. A really good teacher can overcome all of those things.

Diane Ravitch and Geoffrey Canada Duke It Out at Education Nation

Rocco Staino | Posted 11.28.2011

Rocco Staino

Diane Ravitch, educational historian and professor of education at New York University, and Geoffrey Canada, founder and CEO of the Harlem Children's ...

Educating for Democracy: Diane Ravitch: Reforming the "Reformers"

Joel Shatzky | Posted 11.25.2011

Joel Shatzky

The scapegoating, unreasonable demands and expectations of bureaucrats and politicians, and a media that has bought into the idea that the "reformers" are what they pretend to be, drive able and talented teaching veterans out of the profession.

School: It's Way More Boring Than When You Were There

Salon | Daniel Denvir | Posted 11.15.2011

New studies show that the disappearance of art, music and even recess is having a devastating effect on kids Forty-nine million or so American chil...

Two Town Halls, And a Peek Into the Future

John Merrow | Posted 10.30.2011

John Merrow

For the first time in my life, I am channeling Sarah Palin -- specifically, her complaints about what she calls 'the lamestream media.'

Educating for Democracy: Is "On-line Learning" Learning?

Joel Shatzky | Posted 10.30.2011

Joel Shatzky

Can a computer, no matter how cleverly programmed, replace the educational value of a live teacher?

WATCH: Steven Brill To Diane Ravitch: Unions Must Be On Side Of Reform

C-SPAN | Posted 10.21.2011

The founder of The American Lawyer magazine and Court TV tells the story of a coalition of unlikely allies in the fight to change a school system that...

Squaring Off On Racial Achievement Gap

Posted 10.19.2011

Michelle Rhee, the former schools chancellor of Washington, D.C., and Diane Ravitch, the education historian, are two of the most high-profile voices ...

Duncan: Keeping No Child Left Behind Is 'Height Of Arrogance Or Tone-Deafness'

Posted 10.09.2011

Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announced a mass override Monday that would allow states to apply for regulatory relief from student testing requir...

Educating for Democracy: "Save Our Schools" Strategies

Joel Shatzky | Posted 10.03.2011

Joel Shatzky

The "Save Our Schools March" that took place last Saturday might not have been large in terms of participants. But more important was the enthusiasm and determination conveyed by those who attended.

Matt Damon's Powerful Education Speech at the Save Our Schools Rally in DC

Dan Brown | Posted 09.30.2011

Dan Brown

On Saturday, thousands of educators and parents rallied at the grassroots Save Our Schools March on Washington, D.C. Education heavyweights all took the microphone, but it was Matt Damon whose closing speech brought down the house.