Episode

11/20 Diane Ravitch: Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America’s Public Schools

November 20, 2013

Educational historian and author of Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America’s Public Schools Diane Ravitch explains why the education crisis is a myth, where our schools are in real trouble, why poverty drives educations problems, the problems with the Common Core, the real point of education, how obsessive testing regimes impact teachers and students and the real ways to help students that are in trouble.

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