Diane Ravitch Quotes About Students

Quotes about: Students

• Teachers' working conditions are students' learning conditions

  Diane Ravitch

  Teacher, Teaching, Working Conditions

• What is happening to teachers now across this nation is a disgrace. The attacks on them are a blot on our nation. Teachers and students are not different interest groups. Anyone who demeans teachers demeans education and hurts children.

  Diane Ravitch

  Teacher, Hurt, Children

• Of course, all students should learn African history, as they should learn the history of other continents and major civilizations. But this history should be taught accurately and based on the best scholarship, not ideology or politics.

  Diane Ravitch

  Civilization, Taught, Students

• 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

• 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

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