Diane Ravitch is Research Professor of Education
at the Steinhardt School of Education, New York University. One of
America's pre-eminent historians of education, her books include
Left Back, The Great School Wars, The Troubled Crusade, The
Language Police, The American Reader, and The Democracy Reader. She
was Assistant Secretary of Education in the first Bush
administration and was appointed to a federal testing agency by
President Clinton.
Michael Ravitch is a freelance critic and writer.
His work has appeared in The New Republic, Yale Review, and other
publications.
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