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Wed, Apr 14, 2010 -- 9:00 AM
Reconsidering America's School System
Education historian Diane Ravitch, who served in the first Bush administration, was once a leading proponent of charter schools, standardized testing and free market solutions for schools. Now, she has rejected virtually all of those reform strategies. She joins us in-studio to explain her changing views and to talk about her new book, "The Death and Life of the Great American School System."
Host: Michael Krasny
Guests:
- Diane Ravitch, author, historian of education at New York University and former assistant secretary of education in the George H.W. Bush administration
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