Active Quote by Diane Ravitch

“Without knowledge and understanding, one tends to become a passive spectator rather than an active participant in the great decisions of our time.”

Diane Ravitch

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When you succeed at keeping almost everyone in school, you must figure out ways to educate everyone you keep in school.

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“The history of education is a seemingly endless parade of “new ideas” that are actually old ideas renamed.”

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We should totally ban for-profit charters. For-profit's first obligation is to its stockholders, not to its children.

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“By picking a few winners, the Race to the Top competition abandoned the traditional idea of equality of educational opportunity, where federal aid favored…

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“The reformers define the purpose of education as preparation for global competitiveness, higher education, or the workforce. They view students as “human capital” or…

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“While I have never been a member of any union, I was a friend of Albert Shanker, president of the American Federation of Teachers,…

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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…

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“The corporate reform movement has co-opted progressive themes and language in the service of radical purposes. Advocating the privatization of public education is deeply…

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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…

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An attack on public education is an attack on democracy.

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