Ravitch To Attend "Save Our Schools March & National Call to Action" On July 30th in Washington D.C.

Diane Ravitch, author of The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education and outspoken opponent of the current White House education policy explains why she will march in Washington D.C. on July 30th.

Why I Am Marching On July 30

by Diane Ravitch, Education Week--Bridging Differences

Dear Deborah,

I will be marching with the Save Our Schools coalition of teachers and parents on July 30 in Washington, D.C. I know you will be, too. I hope we are joined by many thousands of concerned citizens who want to save our schools from the bad ideas and bad policies now harming them.

Schools will never fix inequality: Diane Ravitch vs. Arne Duncan fight misses point on poverty

Check out this editorial, Schools will never fix inequality: Diane Ravitch vs. Arne Duncan fight misses point on poverty, by John Marsh published June 19, 2011 in the NY Daily News:


"The inconvenient truth: If you care about poverty and economic inequality, you would be better off forgetting about education. Because, even if schools could overcome the effects of growing up in poverty, they cannot reshape the structure of an economy that produces poverty and economic inequality in the first place."