Leading Education Scholar Diane Ravitch: No Child Left Behind Has Left US Schools with Legacy of "Institutionalized Fraud"

(Multimedia) As the Obama administration touts No Child Left Behind and the "Race to the Top" competition for school grants, we speak to leading education scholar and former Assistant Secretary of Education Diane Ravitch. She's long been known as an advocate of No Child Left Behind, charter schools, standardized testing, and using the free market to improve schools. But she's had a radical change of heart, as chronicled in her latest book, The Death and Life of the ... Full Story »

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by Dwight Rousu - Mar. 5, 2010

DN provides a refreshing critical review of education reform, at the time the Obama administration touts a program of privatizing the education system designed by and for the corporations to train technocrats to support corporate commerce rather than educate for a more general democracy under local democratic control.

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