THE WISDOM AND WIT OF DIANE RAVITCH “Diane’s record of scholarship and activism sets a powerful example for us to get involved and stay involved until the fight is won.” – Yohuru Williams
“Public schools are not chain stores that can be closed and opened at will. They are, and they should be, vital community institutions, not transient agencies that come and go as test scores rise and fall.” – Diane Ravitch In this unique collection of her most important writings Diane provides remarkable insights into her seminal thinking on public education, and on the dangers to democracy of treating parents as consumers, students as products, and teachers as compliant followers of commercial scripts. Diane’s unwavering support of public education has made her a national treasure. Public school teachers love her. In The Wisdom and Wit of Diane Ravitch she shines a light on their courage and endurance. She inspires them. But through her writing she also strikes fear into the hearts of all those – oligarchs, politicians, hedge fund financiers, and corporate reformers – who are intent on dismantling public schools and turning them into corporate money makers. Similarly, through her pen, Diane confronts the detractors of public education and exposes the nefarious purposes of the Common Core, high stakes testing, and corporate reform. New York Times “Ms. Ravitch…writes with enormous authority and common sense.” The Nation “In an age when almost everybody has an opinion about schools, Ravitch’s name must be somewhere near the top of the Rolodex of every serious education journalist in this country.” Wall Street Journal “Ms. Ravitch [is] the country’s soberest, most history-minded education expert.”
Publisher: Garn Press On Sale: April 2019 Price: $18.95 Pages: 466 ISBN: 9781942146742 CONTACT: www.garnpress.com/contact