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

- Diane Ravitch

There is something fundamentally antidemocratic about relinquishing control of the public education policy agenda to private foundations run by socie…

- 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 bu…

- Diane Ravitch

Without knowledge and understanding, one tends to become a passive spectator rather than an active participant in the great decisions of our time.

- Diane Ravitch

Teachers' working conditions are students' learning conditions

- Diane Ravitch

Can teachers successfully educate children to think for themselves if teachers are not treated as professionals who think for themselves?

- 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

Testing is not a substitute for curriculum and instruction. Good education cannot be achieved by a strategy of testing children, shaming educators, a…

- Diane Ravitch

When you realize that your history books and your science books and your literature books are not the result of experts sitting down and making it a …

- Diane Ravitch