Quotes by Diane Ravitch, The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education

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Congress and state legislatures should not tell teachers how to teach, any more than they should tell surgeons how to pe — Diane Ravitch, The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education
American Education has a long history of infatuation with fads and ill-considered ideas. The current obsession with maki — Diane Ravitch, The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education
A historian tries to understand what happened, why it happened, what was the context, who did what, and what assumptions — Diane Ravitch, The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education
Accountability makes no sense when it undermines the larger goals of education. — Diane Ravitch, The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education
Testing is not a substitute for curriculum and instruction. Good education cannot be achieved by a strategy of testing c — Diane Ravitch, The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education