Word: ravitch
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...challenging counterpoint to the charges that U.S. schools are now producing less-educated mainstream students and failing to help underclass blacks and Hispanics. One old lesson apparently still holds. "It really doesn't matter where you come from or what your language is," observes Educational Historian Diane Ravitch. "If you arrive with high aspirations and selfdiscipline, schools are a path to upward mobility." Particularly when there is a close working relationship between the school and the family. "Schools cannot do the job alone," says Ernest Boyer, president of the Carnegie Foundation. "But schools must work much harder for all parents...
...Walter Mondale's presidential campaign, Larry Tisch has a keen interest in politics and an eclectic taste in politicians. He has recently been host at breakfasts for Representative Charles Rangel, a liberal Democrat from Harlem, and the Rev. Pat Robertson, the conservative preacher and presidential candidate. Says Richard Ravitch, chairman of New York City's Bowery Savings Bank and former head of New York's metropolitan transportation authority: "Most people who seek the White House seek his advice and ultimately his support." Tisch was instrumental in helping preserve the deductibility of state and local income taxes...
Author and Columbia Teachers College Professor DIANE RAVITCH at Reed College in Portland: "You have just completed what is widely regarded as an elite education, not because only an elite deserves a liberal education or can benefit by a liberal education, but because fewer and fewer American students are actually receiving an education of comparable quality and breadth. A liberal education is founded on the premise that knowledge is power and that ideas move the world. Or, this idea is expressed in what is known as the Law of Selective Advancement (a relative of Murphy's Law): 'The person...
...PUBLIC SCHOOLS are America's "great social laboratory," as Columbia's Diane Ravitch says in Psychology Today this month, then who has been the mad scientist? Last spring, the media and the Presidential Education Commission ignited the current debate on public schools. Since then, every politician along the rubber-chicken speech circuit has thrown in their own proposals: raise teachers' pay, raise good teachers' pay; spend more federal money, give more local control; return to basics, advance to computers. But while debate has raged nationwide, local communities hold many of the answers to education problems...
...short, Americans still need a larger vision of their schools' educational mission. Says Ravitch: "We went through a period of ethnic revivalism and separatism, and it may be that we are now ready to go beyond thatto think about our common needs as people and as Americans, our needs as a community...