Diane Ravitch

Can teachers successfully educate children to think for themselves if teachers are not treated as professionals who think for themselves? ↗

— Diane Ravitch

#school-reform #teachers #teachers-know-best #death

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

— Diane Ravitch

#death

Testing is not a substitute for curriculum and instruction. Good education cannot be achieved by a strategy of testing children, shaming educators, and closing schools. ↗

— Diane Ravitch

#school #testing #death

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

#history #education

You can't lead your troops if your troops do not trust you. ↗

— Diane Ravitch

#mayoral-control #school-reform #death

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

— Diane Ravitch

#education

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

— Diane Ravitch

#been #century #education #fads #failed

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

— Diane Ravitch

#complacency #education #greatest #greatest obstacle #hope