Diane Ravtitch · No Child Left Behind · The Death and Life of the American School System

‘We are lying to our kids,’ says Diane Ravitch

Diane Ravitch, a giant within the education establishment in the USA and former Assistant Education Secretary to George Walker Bush, has just announced a change of heart on the USA’s ‘No Child Left Behind’ programme.Why the change of heart? Because of standardised testing. Testing has become ‘a strategy for measuring and punishing,’ she is reported… Continue reading ‘We are lying to our kids,’ says Diane Ravitch