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A 3 page essay that describes the views expressed by Diane Ravitch, noted education expert, in her text The Death and Life of the Great American School System. The writer offers an overview of the context of Ravitch's views and how they have changed in regards to contemporary school reform. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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listed below. Citation styles constantly change, and these examples may not contain the most recent updates. Diane Ravitch, American Public Schools Research Compiled for
, Enterprises Inc. By - May, 2012 properly Diane Ravitch is one of the countrys leading
educators and has been a vocal advocate for both testing and accountability initiatives in the public schools. A professor at New York University, she served in the US Department of
Education during the administration of President George W. Bush. However, in her text The Death and Life of the Great American School System, Ravitch rejects her former positions and argues
that this current program of educational reform has produced negative results. In the first chapter of her book, Ravitch explains the process that led to her changing her
mind about the efficacy of the reforms that she previously promoted. In doing so, Ravitch explains how her enthusiasm for these ideas, that is, testing and accountability measures, seemed to
be the ideal answers to the overarching social issues of the time, as they "promised to end bureaucracy" and ensure that "poor children were not neglected" (Ravitch, 2010a, p. 3).
Ravitchs support for testing and accountability measures laid out in the Bush Administrations No Child Left Behind (NCLB) act of 2002 began to decline just a few years after
the law was enacted. Ravitch was initially a staunch supporter of the NCLB, but she came to believe that, rather than raising standards, the new law was having the opposite
effect as states and school districts endeavored to meet unrealistic targets and goals (Scott and Bledsoe, 2012). Ravitch became particularly distressed by the fact that testing required by the NCLB
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