Diane Ravitch Quotes
Sometimes the most brilliant and intelligent minds do not shine in standardized tests because they do not have standardized minds.
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.
Can teachers successfully educate children to think for themselves if teachers are not treated as professionals who think for themselves?
Privatizing our public schools makes as much sense as privatizing the fire department or or the police department
Congress and state legislatures should not tell teachers how to teach, any more than they should tell surgeons how to perform operations.
The ladder was there, from the gutter to the university, and for those stalwart enough to ascend it, the schools were a boon and a path out of poverty.
Without knowledge and understanding, one tends to become a passive spectator rather than an active participant in the great decisions of our time.
Accountability makes no sense when it undermines the larger goals of education.
American education has been littered with failed fads and foolish ideas for the past century.
When you succeed at keeping almost everyone in school, you must figure out ways to educate everyone you keep in school.
We should totally ban for-profit charters. For-profit's first obligation is to its stockholders, not to its children.
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
One of the persistent ironies of reform is the impossibility of predicting the full consequences of change.
Sometimes, the most brilliant and intelligent minds do not shine in standardized tests because they do not have standardized minds.
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.
