Diane Ravitch: The Death and Life of the Great American School System
The Hillside Club
Berkeley, CA
Hosted by Philip Maldari
Diane Ravitch draws on over forty years of research and experience to critique the most popular ideas for restructuring schools, in the process rejecting some of her own long-held beliefs about school reform. Using examples from school systems as diverse as New York, Denver, Boston, Washington DC, Chicago, Philadelphia and San Diego, she offers a roadmap for getting our schools back on track. This new, revised edition of her book, like her personal presentation, is a passionate plea to preserve and renew public education. It reveals a radical change of heart by one of America's best-known education experts.
"No citizen can afford to ignore this brave book by our premier historian of education." E.D. Hirsh, Jr, author of Cultural Literacy, and The Schools We Need
"Diane Ravitch is the rarest of scholarsone who reports her findings and conclusions, even when they go against conventional wisdom and even when they counter her earlier, publicly espoused positionsa 'must' read for all who truly care about American education." -Howard Gardner, Harvard Graduate School of Education
BIO: Diane Ravitch is Research Professor of Education at New York University and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. Formerly she was Assistant Secretary of Education and Counselor to Secretary of Education Lamar Alexander in the administration of Pres. George H.W. Bush, prior to being appointed to the National Assessment Governing Board by the Clinton Administration. She blogs for Huffington Post.com and EDWeek.org, and is the author or editor of 20 some books.
"It is precisely because of her associations with those more conservative on educational matters that this carries the impact that it does. It may infuriate some of her former colleagues, because she is thorough, she is blunt...anyone concerned about public schools should read it It is that good, that rich, that important." DailyKos.com
Philip Maldari, veteran KPFA Public Affairs Producer, now hosts the Sunday Morning Show
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| Posted On: Jan 18, 2012 10:01 PM Reply |
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1) Could you comment on your experiences at the Brookings Institute and how various experts hopefully collaberate so that proposed solutions have a interconnected impact.
2) From what I call a National {economic-individual} Security perspective I have been an advocate since 1979 of a former bill in the House of Reps, by then local Congressman Paul N 'Pete' McCloskey that would have modified the Selective Service System into a National Youth Service System. I have achieved mostly blank stares from the thought leaders in our society on this strategy. One important enhancement was to modify the male only registration at 18, to include females & at age 17, to encourage a 1-year-debate among young adults, family, peers, and if in high school in high school, over the merits of participatory democracy, at 18 indicate a desire to participate by a simple reply of No, Yes, or Maybe, towards some form of contracted community or military service. Maybe allowed differed decision until age 23. I call this Educational {decision-making} Democracy, and Constructive {sweat-equity} Citizenship. What organization might be willing to test this concept in various school districts across the nation, and what organization might help facilitate an internet based debate on its nation-wide merits?
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| Start: | Thursday Jan 19, 2012 7:30 PM | | End: | Thursday Jan 19, 2012 9:30 PM |
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The Hillside Club (View Venue)
2286 Cedar St
Berkeley, CA 94709
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