Diane Ravitch

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Diane Ravitch

Diane Silvers Ravitch (born July 1, 1938 in Houston ) is an educational historian and professor at the State University of New York .

She grew up in a Jewish family, attended Wellesley College and studied at Columbia University until her doctorate in 1975, where she worked with Teachers College and its President Lawrence A. Cremin . She was appointed to public offices by Presidents George HW Bush and Bill Clinton : as Assistant Secretary of Education under Secretary of Education Lamar Alexander from 1991 to 1993. His successor Richard Riley appointed her to the National Assessment Governing Board, which is responsible for the National Assessment of Educational Progress from 1997 to 2004. From 1995 to 2005 she held the Brown Chair in Education Studies at the Brookings Institution . Most recently she taught at the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development .

During the 1980s, it began to require voluntary national educational standards related to testing. Important works (1995) on educational standards come from her. She came into contact with the Core Knowledge movement of Eric Donald Hirsch . During her time in government, she was tasked with developing national educational standards. She criticized the development of the US school system (2000) due to the poor influence of US educator John Dewey , who underestimated formal teaching. Children from educationally disadvantaged backgrounds in particular suffer from the school reforms because they are not prepared for the requirements of a progressive upbringing. Against the preference for project teaching and the limitation of the teaching role to moderator function, she formulated: "It is the poor children who suffer when they do not have good teachers."

However, in 2007 she changed her opinion on the components of the free market in the educational reform (recommendation of private schools , closure of less successful schools, teacher replacement according to success rate), but continued to demand a fixed curriculum with Hirsch. Since 2010 (The Death and Life of the Great American School System) she has become an activist against educational injustice, who runs a popular blog . Against her former support for more national tests in schools, she now considers them to be controlled by small interest groups. She is also against the privatization of the public school sector, which, for example, supports Education Minister Betsy DeVos under President Trump . She considers poverty and racial segregation to be the biggest educational problems in the United States.

In The Great School Wars (1974) she described the history of New York City public schools with alternating phases of centralization and decentralization. She linked periodic controversies about public education with waves of immigration .

The book The Language Police (2003) was a criticism of attempts by left and right groups to prevent studies and expressions of opinion that contradict their views.

Fonts

  • The Great School Wars: New York City, 1805–1973 (1974, new ed. 1988, 2000) ISBN 0-8018-6471-2
  • The Revisionists Revised: A Critique of the Radical Attack on the Schools (1978) ISBN 0-465-06943-6
  • Schools in Cities: Consensus and Conflict in American Educational History (1983) ISBN 0-8419-0850-8
  • National Standards in American Education: A Consumer's Guide (1995) ISBN 0-8157-7352-8
  • New Schools for a New Century: The Redesign of Urban Education (1997) ISBN 0-300-07874-9
  • Left Back: a Century of Failed School Reforms (2000) ISBN 978-0684844176
  • The Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn (2003) ISBN 0-375-41482-7
  • Forgotten Heroes of American Education: The Great Tradition of Teaching Teachers (2006) ISBN 1-59311-448-6
  • The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education (2010) ISBN 978-0-465-01491-0
  • Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools (2013) ISBN 978-0385350884

Web links

Commons : Diane Ravitch  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Single receipts

  1. ↑ Daniel Scholl: Are the traditional curricula superfluous ?: On the theoretical problem of educational standards and core curricula . Springer-Verlag, 2009, ISBN 978-3-531-91222-6 ( google.de [accessed June 19, 2020]).
  2. ^ Jürgen Oelkers: John Dewey and pedagogy . Beltz, 2009, ISBN 978-3-407-85886-3 , pp. 304 .
personal data
SURNAME Ravitch, Diane
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ravitch, Diane Silvers
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American education expert
DATE OF BIRTH July 1, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Houston