Word: ravitch
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...Diane Ravitch...
...always fascinating to see someone renounce previously held beliefs. Such unabashed 180s are a rare sight both in politics--where an opinion once stated is by necessity an opinion forever defended--and in academia, which is only slightly less afflicted by the cult of the certain. Diane Ravitch, a prominent education historian and former Assistant Secretary of Education, stands at the intersection of the two spheres. Once a proponent of charter schools, standardized testing and merit pay, Ravitch now uses Death and Life to proclaim her ardent opposition to the seemingly unstoppable engine of the education-reform movement, which...