Diane Ravitch

“Congress and state legislatures should not tell teachers how to teach, any more than they should tell surgeons how to perform operations.”

“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 may be the worst of them, for it t...”

“Privatizing our public schools makes as much sense as privatizing the fire department or or the police department”

“We will continue to chase rainbows unless we recognize that they are rainbows and there is no pot of gold at the end of them.”

“American education has been littered with failed fads and foolish ideas for the past century.”

“The greatest obstacle to those who hope to reform American education is complacency.”