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	EDUCATION REVIEW
		Ravitch's argument is not difficult to summarize in a nutshell: a relatively small but highly vocal and influential group of education professors and their allies undermined the ability of American schools to maintain high standards of instruction and a responsible curriculum.
		Ravitch tips her hat to the progressive concern with undoing the evils of school practices of the past, but never seriously addresses the issue of which problems various reformers saw themselves correcting.
		Ravitch mentions Larry Cuban and Arthur Zilversmit just briefly, two scholars who argue that progressive ideas had relatively little influence on the practice of teachers, but does not trouble her readers with the notion that there might be a question about the influence of progressivism in the book's principal narrative.
	edrev.asu.edu /reviews/rev123.htm (2822 words)

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		I assume that Diane Ravitch is someone who is as deeply committed to a fair and socially just education as I am—even when our political and educational agendas may differ—I also assume that re-stratification and fostering the power of the conservative restoration is not what she wants either.
		Diane Ravitch is quite a good writer and is able to make what seems to be an articulate case for higher national standards and more emphasis on performance assessment of particular kinds.
		Since I assume that Diane Ravitch is someone who is as deeply committed to a fair and socially just education as I am—even when our political and educational agendas may differ—I also assume that re-stratification and fostering the power of the conservative restoration is not what she wants either.
	edrev.asu.edu /reviews/rev103.htm (2367 words)

	Washingtonpost.com: Live Online
		Diane Ravitch: The federal share of spending for education is now about 7%, and much of that goes to special programs (like special education, bilingual education, and other targeted uses) that has little bearing on the average child.
		Diane Ravitch: In my latest book, I argue that the biggest mistake we have made in the name of school reform is to divide kids up into groups who were deserving of a quality education and those who didn't have the right stuff and therefore did not get a quality education.
		Diane Ravitch: The NAEP is not "another test." It is a test, offered in the major academic subjects, that is given to a sampling of students across the countries.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/liveonline/00/schools/schools0823.htm (4912 words)

	CNN - Dr. Diane Ravitch - September 5, 2000
		Diane Ravitch is an education policy analyst and historian, who has authored numerous books on educational standards in the United States.
		Diane Ravitch: Good parents are deeply concerned about their children, and in public schools we have to take care of all children, including those whose parents are not so involved.
		Diane Ravitch: Well, I believe parents have the right to home school, but their children have to take the same tests as others do, so that a minority does not abuse the privilege and harm their children.
	edition.cnn.com /COMMUNITY/transcripts/2000/9/5/ravitch (1964 words)

	Amazon.com: Left Back : A Century of Failed School Reforms: Books: Diane Ravitch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Ravitch depicts the century as falling into two halves, divided by the 1950s, when a sudden and concerted backlash against progressive ideas was sparked by teachers' and parents' resistance to education "experts," and she draws clear parallels between early-century ideas and contemporary trends.
		Ravitch does identify problems that exist in American education, but her message is not a pessimistic one, but is a message of hope.
		Ravitch doesn't even talk about homeschooling as an option, though as a researcher, she must know that it is the fastest-growing alternative to public education in the country.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0684844176?v=glance (3233 words)

	Diane Ravitch
		Diane Ravitch is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and a member of the Koret Task Force on K–12 Education.
		Ravitch is a research professor at New York University, a non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and a member of the board of the New America Foundation.
		Ravitch, a historian of education, has lectured on democracy and civic education throughout the world.
	www-hoover.stanford.edu /bios/ravitch.html (334 words)

	Commentary Magazine - The Revisionists Revised, by Diane Ravitch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		...Ravitch is aware of the centrality of this issue, and she devotes the final portion of her chapter on "Education and Social Mobility" to a concentrated discussion of it...
		...Ravitch devotes one lengthy chapter to a series of brief individualized treatments of the radical critics in which she distinguishes among their basic approaches and skillfully points up deficiencies in their use of historical or sociological evidence...
		...Ravitch broadly summarizes the radical perspective and its contrast with the liberal viewpoint: Where liberals had argued that the spread of public schooling was social progress, radicals saw the public school as a weapon of social control and indoctrination...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V66I4P94-1.htm (1193 words)

	The Heartland Institute - Anti-Intellectualism Runs Rampant: Diane Ravitch - by interviewed by George A. Clowes
		Diane Ravitch has written extensively on the history of American education, on education standards, and on education for democracy.
		From 1991 to 1993, Ravitch served as Assistant Secretary of Education and Counselor to the Secretary of Education and was responsible for the Office of Educational Research and Improvement in the U.S. Department of Education.
		Ravitch: The one thing that the proponents of all these different methods had in common--whether they were dealing with curriculum or instruction--was a hostility to the academic curriculum and a belief that an academic curriculum should be available only to that very small number of students who were likely to go to college.
	www.heartland.org /Article.cfm?artId=10023 (2437 words)

	PBS: Think Tank: Transcript for "The Language Police/Textbook PC"
		Diane: Uh, Gary Nash who’s now an emeritus professor at UCLA and uh, you know, a very esteemed American historian but his political views are very strong.
		Diane: Not a real person but the PR person and he said, all he could, kept saying was ’we’re balanced.
		Diane: Well the short-term solution, and probably it’s the long-term solution as well, is that teachers should rely less on textbooks when they’re teaching history or literature.
	www.pbs.org /thinktank/transcript1116.html (3996 words)

	Commentary Magazine - Left Back by Diane Ravitch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Diane Ravitch has long been one of the sanest voices among the country's education experts.
		...By the 1960's, Ravitch shows, what remained of the old progressive mix was a deep hostility to serious academic study and to the "imposition" of adult authority in the classroom-ideas that received a strong boost from the decade's wider countercultural currents...
		...Ravitch carries her critique right up to the last decades of the 20th century, citing such recent atrocities as the "whole-language" movement and the "new math," both of which emphasize the spontaneous and "natural" way in which children can supposedly become literate and numerate on their own...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V110I4P55-1.htm (1636 words)

	CNN.com - Transcripts
		RAVITCH: For instance, you can't have a story about peanuts and George Washington Carver because some children are allergic to peanuts, and they'll be so upset by a story about peanuts that they won't be able to complete the test.
		RAVITCH: What I did was to contact all the publishers of tests and textbooks and discover that they all have what's called "bias guidelines," where they list words that you're never to use.
		RAVITCH: This is a combination of left-wing political correctness and right-wing fundamentalism, because there is banning and censorship coming from both sides.
	cnnstudentnews.cnn.com /TRANSCRIPTS/0306/02/ltm.15.html (784 words)

	The Language Police:Ravitch, Diane:0375414827:eCampus.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In this hard-hitting analysis, Diane Ravitch--the nation's leading historian of American education--explains the causes and consequences of this widespread censorship.
		From her firsthand experience as a member of a federal testing board, Ravitch describes how both the political right and left have demanded censorship and been highly effective.
		Christian groups object to topics dealing with evolution, fantasy, and nontraditional family settings, while feminists and multiculturalists insist on removal of all language and images that might somehow be construed as sexist or racist.
	www.ecampus.com /bk_detail.asp?ISBN=0375414827 (157 words)

	Hard Lessons
		In Ravitch's telling, the story of American public schools in the twentieth century becomes a fable about an education system led astray by the far-fetched notions of anti-intellectual "progressive" educators, and about the need to reinstate the rigorous standards and teaching methods favored by many traditionalists on the right.
		Ravitch clearly hopes that her account of how a series of misguided reforms led us away from a commitment to rigorous schooling for all can perhaps also help to show us the way back.
		Ravitch served as an assistant secretary of education in the Bush Administration, and until December of last year was an education adviser to George W. Bush's campaign.
	www.catholiceducation.org /articles/education/ed0189.html (2013 words)

	Bilingual Education -- Ravitch Attack
		Diane Ravitch, a former assistant secretary of education in the Bush Administration, has been a longtime critic of bilingual education.
		Ravitch implies that bilingual education is to blame for high Hispanic dropout rates.
		Ravitch resorts to the demeaning and unscientific term "patois" to express her contempt for creole tongues.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/JWCRAWFORD/Ravitch.htm (1315 words)

	Haber's Art Reviews: Diane Ravitch and the Language Police
		According to Diane Ravitch, however, the police are everywhere, and they have found a dangerously effective strategy: silence discordant voices early, while they are learning to speak.
		Ravitch, a professor of education at New York University, has long been the conservative that liberals would love to invite to the party.
		Ravitch sees hope only in sunlight, and she intends means her book as a window.
	www.haberarts.com /ravitch.htm (1069 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: The Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Ravitch suggests that more attention is given to the inoffensiveness of test items than to their academic soundness.
		Not only does Ravitch offer a thorough description of censorship of educational materials, she details a three-point solution, beginning with the elimination of massive state adoptions that determine, to a large extent, the books' content.
		What Ravitch makes clear is that as long as political correctness is the law of the land, then the glossiness of splendid looking textbooks will do no more than mask an emptiness of thought and spirit that the worst despots of history might well have endorsed.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/1400030641 (2087 words)

	Amazon.com: The Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Ravitch's topic and discussion of textbook and testing censorship is a stunning revelation and a fascinating topic, her book does not do justice to all of the issues.
		As clearly as Diane Ravitsh thinks and writes, a reader cannot fully grasp what she presents in "Language Police" without reading one of her scholarly histories or at least examining her heavy use of quotes and her careful and balanced use of documents.
		Ravitch is convincing in her thesis that sober minded Americans need be alarmed about all politically motivated censorship.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0375414827?v=glance (3416 words)

	Booknotes
		In this authoritative history of education in the twentieth century, historian Diane Ravitch describes this ongoing battle of ideas and explains why school reform has so often failed.
		These men, dissidents in their own times, are usually left out of standard histories of education or treated derisively because they believed that all children deserved the opportunity to meet high standards of learning.
		She argues that all students have the capacity to learn and that all are equally deserving of a solid liberal arts education.
	www.booknotes.org /Program?ProgramID=1585 (476 words)

	Diane Ravitch on School Reform: Left Back (RJO's Reviews)
		The book’s theme is the so-called “progressive education” movement and how for the past 100 years it has deprived students from all socio-economic groups, but especially poor students, of the rigorous academic education that would help them advance in society.
		Ravitch’s writing is unfailingly smooth and well-ordered, and more than fifty pages of detailed endnotes will allow curious readers to follow up on any of the topics she examines.
		Higher education has been infected with many of the ideas Ravitch describes by way of student affairs and residence life departments that oversee undergraduate life outside the classroom.
	rjohara.net /reviews/ravitch.html (314 words)

	Education Policy Analysis Archives: Vol. 4 No. 10 Michael Apple "Review of Ravitch "National Standards"
		Abstract: I assume that Diane Ravitch is someone who is as deeply committed to a fair and socially just education as I am--even when our political and educational agendas may differ--I also assume that re-stratification and fostering the power of the conservative restoration is not what she wants either.
		Of equal importance, is the fact that the fiscal crisis now being experienced in many states has meant that seemingly fine sounding plans--sometimes quite similar to what Ravitch has asked for--have served as excuses to put in place much of what she is against.
		Since I assume that Diane Ravitch is someone who is as deeply committed to a fair and socially just education as I am--even when our political and educational agendas may differ--I also assume that re-stratification and fostering the power of the conservative restoration is not what she wants either.
	epaa.asu.edu /epaa/v4n10.html (2674 words)

	Spotlight On Schools - Diane Ravitch: Censorship of Language Attacked
		Words and subjects that cannot be used include, “owls” because they are a symbol of death in certain cultures, “Mt. Rushmore” because it is sacred to an Indian tribe, and “peanuts” because some children are allergic to them.
		Using common sense, writers of educational material should be sensitive to things that are offensive to large groups of people.” He objects to a bureaucracy controlling what we teach and learn, not the attempt to be gender neutral and sensitive to race and cultures.
		Ravitch does not call for elimination of bias and sensitivity panels but rather for their work, now behind closed doors, to be open to public view.
	www.educationupdate.com /archives/2003/june03/issue/spot_ravitch.html (423 words)

	No Idea Left Behind: An Interview with Dr. Diane Ravitch
		The state of affairs turns out to not be a happy one, but Dr. Ravitch’s work is absolutely one that had to be written.
		D.C. Previously, she was assistant secretary in charge of research in the U.S. Department of Education in the first Bush Administration, and was also appointed by Bill Clinton to the National Assessment Government Board.
		Ravitch has a great many publications to her credit.
	www.strike-the-root.com /3/chapin/chapin24.html (1514 words)

	Excerpts from Reviews of The Language Police by Diane Ravitch
		Diane Ravitch, author, advocate, and professor of education at New York University, has taken a strong stand against “the new literary terrorists from both the left and the right” who demand that certain words and concepts not appear in the texts our children use in school.
		The elderly must not be depicted as frail, and mothers should not be shown in the kitchen.
		Ravitch reports that the National Council for Teachers of English bans use of the word “guy.”
	econc10.bu.edu /Decline/Ravitch_language_police.htm (952 words)

	NPR : Author Diane Ravitch
		In her book she chronicles the efforts of school boards and bias and sensitivity committees to edit and shape the textbooks that end up in classrooms.
		Some examples of this include: omitting the mention of Jews in an Isaac Bashevis Singer story about prewar Poland, changing the expression "My God!" to "You don't mean it," and recommending that children not be shown as disobedient or in conflict with adults.
		Ravitch writes that the process has evolved into a practice that excises "words, images, passages and ideas that no reasonable person would consider biased in the usual meaning of that term."
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=1246401 (189 words)

	Borzoi Reader \| Catalog \| The Language Police by Diane Ravitch
		Diane Ravitch maintains that America’s students are compelled to read insipid texts that have been censored and bowdlerized, issued by publishers who willingly cut controversial material from their books—a case of the bland leading the bland.
		She has practical and sensible solutions for ending it, which will improve the quality of books for students as well as liberating publishers, state boards of education, and schools from the grip of pressure groups.
		With partner Rodney Atkinson, Diane Ravitch has created a list of reccommended reading for children of all ages.
	www.randomhouse.com /knopf/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=0375414827 (438 words)

	DLC: Is Head Start Smart? by Diane Ravitch
		In the long run, however, a reconfigured Head Start could dramatically improve the lives of the nation's most vulnerable children.
		Diane Ravitch is a New York-based senior fellow with the Progressive Policy Institute.
		Martha Wright, a former intern at the Progressive Policy Institute, assisted the author with research.
	www.dlc.org /ndol_ci.cfm?contentid=1567&kaid=110&subid=180 (1432 words)

	"Empty Education" by Thomas Toch
		Left Back by Diane Ravitch traces the evolution of a striking paradox in American education: Public schools, particularly secondary schools, have long downplayed the importance of academics for a majority of students.
		In the late 1800s it was widely thought that after students had grasped the three Rs, schools' primary task should be to develop and discipline students' minds through the teaching of history and other traditional subjects.
		Ravitch chronicles this long-standing and deeply seeded anti-intellectualism in public education, from its turn-of-the-century origins to the "life-adjustment" movement of the 1940s and 1950s and the neo-progressivism of the 1960s and early 1970s.
	www.washingtonmonthly.com /books/2000/0007.toch.html (554 words)

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