Live: Author Diane Ravitch at Syracuse University

A research professor of education at New York University, Diane Ravitch is internationally acclaimed for her expertise on past and present education. Her most recent book, The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice are Undermining Education makes the case that public education today is in peril. Drawing on her more than 40 years of research and experience, Ravitch critiques today’s most popular ideas for restructuring schools, including privatization, standardized testing, punitive accountability and the multiplication of charter schools, and offers a prescription for improving American public schools.

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