Quotes by : Diane Ravitch

Testing is not a substitute for curriculum and instruction. Good education cannot be achieved by a strategy....

Accountability makes no sense when it undermines the larger goals of education.

American Education has a long history of infatuation with fads and ill-considered ideas. The current....

Congress and state legislatures should not tell teachers how to teach, any more than they should tell....

A historian tries to understand what happened, why it happened, what was the context, who did what, and....

We will continue to chase rainbows unless we recognize that they are rainbows and there is no pot of....

Public education is not broken. It is not failing or declining. The diagnosis is wrong, and the solutions....

Sometimes, the most brilliant and intelligent minds do not shine in standardized tests because they do....

Privatizing our public schools makes as much sense as privatizing the fire department or or the police....