The person who knows ‘how’ will always have a job. The person who knows ‘why’ will always be his boss.
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Bill Gates is wrong. American education is not 'broken.' Federal education policy is 'broken.' Testing children until they cry is a bad idea. It is educational malpractice.
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Birth: | 1st July, 1938 |
Nationality: | American |
Profession: | Author, Historian, Professor |
Diane Silvers Ravitch was born in Houston, Texas. She is an American author, historian and professor at New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. Previously, she was a U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education. She is a graduate of Wellesley College, has a Ph.D. from Columbia University. Ravitch's first book The Great School Wars is a history of New York City public schools. Her book The Language Police was a criticism of both left-wing and right-wing attempts to stifle the study and expression of views deemed unworthy by those groups.
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