Latest Diane Ravitch Quotes from Interviews

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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 achievement gap. And it hasn't happened. Yet the new law, the Every Student Succeeds Act, is based on the same test-based and market-driven framework and ideology, except it lets the states do it.

  Diane Ravitch

  Thinking, Law, People

  Source: www.motherjones.com

• I support charters, but the right kind of charters. I support charters that support kids who have the highest needs. A charter should be targeting students who are in serious trouble. It should serve students who didn't succeed in public schools when it can help them. Or, at least, charters should agree to accept similar proportions of the kids with the highest needs.

  Diane Ravitch

  School, Kids, Support

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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

  Diane Ravitch

  Children, Firsts, Bans

  Source: www.motherjones.com