“ Sometimes, the most brilliant and intelligent minds do not shine in standardized tests because they do not have standardized minds. Diane Ravitch
“ 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. Diane Ravitch
“ Privatizing our public schools makes as much sense as privatizing the fire department or or the police department Diane Ravitch
“ 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. Diane Ravitch
“ A historian tries to understand what happened, why it happened, what was the context, who did what, and what assumptions led them to act as they did. A historian customarily displays a certain diffide… Diane Ravitch
“ Public education is not broken. It is not failing or declining. The diagnosis is wrong, and the solutions of the corporate reformers are wrong. Our urban schools are in trouble because of concentrated… Diane Ravitch
“ American Education has a long history of infatuation with fads and ill-considered ideas. The current obsession with making our schools work like a business may be the worst of them, for it threatens t… Diane Ravitch
“ Congress and state legislatures should not tell teachers how to teach, any more than they should tell surgeons how to perform operations. Diane Ravitch
