You can't lead your troops if your troops do not trust you. Diane Ravitch More Quotes by Diane Ravitch More Quotes From Diane Ravitch When you realize that your history books and your science books and your literature books are not the result of experts sitting down and making it a wise decision, but of political pressure groups coming to the state textbook hearings, this is wrong. Diane Ravitch pressure-groupswisebook Testing children until they cry is a bad idea. It is an educational malpractice. Diane Ravitch educationalchildrenideas Research does not support any part of Race to the Top Diane Ravitch supportracedoe If charter schools are not more successful on average than the public schools they replace, what is accomplished by demolishing public education? What is the rationale for authorizing for-profit charters or charter management organizations with high-paid executives, since their profits and high salaries are paid by taxpayers' dollars? Diane Ravitch successfulaverageschool We should totally ban for-profit charters. For-profit's first obligation is to its stockholders, not to its children. Diane Ravitch banschildrenfirsts One of the persistent ironies of reform is the impossibility of predicting the full consequences of change. Diane Ravitch ironyreformchange 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 Diane Ravitch rainbowgoldpot An attack on public education is an attack on democracy. Diane Ravitch public-educationdemocracy 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 taughtstudentscivilization Most people believe that schools were good enough when they were children and that they are good enough now. But the dynamic growth of our system of education has spawned serious problems of educational quality. Diane Ravitch educationalbelievechildren The foundations demand that public schools and teachers be held accountable for performance, but they themselves are accountable to no one. If their plans fail, no sanctions are levied against them. They are bastions of unaccountability. Diane Ravitch foundationteacherschool 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 lawpeoplethinking The person who knows how will always have a job. The person who knows why will always be his boss. Diane Ravitch
