Privatizing our public schools makes as much sense as privatizing the fire department or or the police department
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The greatest obstacle to those who hope to reform American education is complacency.
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American education has been littered with failed fads and foolish ideas for the past century.
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We will continue to chase rainbows unless we recognize that they are rainbows and there is no pot of gold at the end of them.
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American Education has a long history of infatuation with fads and ill-considered ideas. The current obsession with making our schools work like a business may be the worst of them, for it threatens to destroy public education. Who will Stand up to the tycoons and politicians and tell them so?
— Diane Ravitch The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education
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Congress and state legislatures should not tell teachers how to teach, any more than they should tell surgeons how to perform operations.
— Diane Ravitch The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education
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