Diane Ravitch UO

Diane Ravitch is a leading author and expert on educational standards and policies. She served as counselor to Secretary of Education Lamar Alexander during the Bush Administration and as co-chair of the Chancellor's Commission on Educational Standards and Accountability in New York City, 1994-95. She was a principal writer of the K-12 California history-social science curriculum, for which she was recognized as an honorary citizen of California. Her books include: What Do Our 17-Year-Olds Know?; The Schools We Deserve; The Troubled Crusade: American Education; The Revisionists Revised; and The Great School Wars: New York City.