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Opinion: Don't Close Schools, Fix Them

(June 29) -- In a four-part series on AOL News last week, Dana Chivvis told the story of a small high school in Brooklyn that is slated to be closed for poor performance. Its graduation rates and test scores are low, yet district officials never gave the school the facilities or resources to improve. Today, federal...

Diane Ravitch News From the Web

05/27/12 Degrees of failure in idea that everyone needs to... Source: The Denver Post - Denver CO The college-for-all crusade has outlived its usefulness.
05/24/12 Ravitch: What is NCTQ? (and why you should know) Source: The Downey Patriot - Downey CA This was written by education historian Diane Ravitch.
05/23/12 Wall Street and Charter Schools Source: Joanne Jacobs Diane Ravitch has an illuminating, if somewhat overwrought piece up today on Bridging Differences that has an assertion and a question.
05/21/12 Why college-for-everybody is a sham: Ravitch Source: The Washington Post - Washington DC This was written by education historian Diane Ravitch.
05/17/12 The high stakes of standardized tests Source: ABC - KESQ 3 - Palm Springs CA Standardized tests are nothing new in public schools.

Background on Diane Ravitch

Diane Silvers Ravitch (born July 1, 1938) is an historian of education, an educational policy analyst, and a research professor at New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development.

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