Meet Diane Ravitch

Diane Ravitch is Research Professor in the School of Education at New York University and holds the Herman and George R. Brown Chair in Education Studies at the Brookings Institution. She was an assistant secretary in the U.S. Department of Education, and she serves on the National Assessment Governing Board. Her publications include Learning from the Past: What History Teaches Us about School Reform and City Schools: Lessons from New York (both available from Johns Hopkins), The Troubled Crusade: American Education, 1945-1980, and Left Back: A Century of Failed School Reforms (forthcoming).

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The Great School Wars
A History of the New York City Public Schools

Diane Ravitch
with a new introduction by the author

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City Schools
Lessons from New York

edited by Diane Ravitch and Joseph P. Viteritti

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Learning from the Past
What History Teaches Us about School Reform

edited by Diane Ravitch and Maris A. Vinovskis

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