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DESCRIPTION:Hosted by Philip Maldari\n\nDiane Ravitch draws on over forty years of 
 research and experience to critique the most popular ideas for 
 restructuring schools, in the process rejecting some of her own long-held 
 beliefs about school reform. Using examples from school systems as diverse 
 as New York, Denver, Boston, Washington DC, Chicago, Philadelphia and San 
 Diego, she offers a roadmap for getting our schools back on track. This 
 new, revised edition of her book, like her personal presentation, is a 
 passionate plea to preserve and renew public education. It reveals a 
 radical change of heart by one of America’s best-known education experts. 
 \n\n“No citizen can afford to ignore this brave book by our premier 
 historian of education.”  — E.D. Hirsh, Jr, author of Cultural 
 Literacy, and The Schools We Need\n\n“Diane Ravitch is the rarest of 
 scholars—one who reports her findings and conclusions, even when they go 
 against conventional wisdom and even when they counter her earlier, 
 publicly espoused positions…a ‘must’ read for all who truly care 
 about American education.”  -Howard Gardner, Harvard Graduate School of 
 Education\n\nBIO: Diane Ravitch is Research Professor of Education at New 
 York University and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in 
 Washington, D.C. Formerly she was Assistant Secretary of Education and 
 Counselor to Secretary of Education Lamar Alexander in the administration 
 of Pres. George H.W. Bush, prior to being appointed to the National 
 Assessment Governing Board by the Clinton Administration. She blogs for 
 Huffington Post.com and EDWeek.org, and is the author or editor of 20 some 
 books. \n\n“It is precisely because of her associations with those more 
 conservative on educational matters that this …carries the impact that it 
 does. It may infuriate some of her former colleagues, because she is 
 thorough, she is blunt...anyone concerned about public schools should read 
 it… It is that good, that rich, that important.”— DailyKos.com 
 \n\nPhilip Maldari, veteran KPFA Public Affairs Producer, now hosts the 
 Sunday Morning Show                                   \n\n$12 advance 
 tickets: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/215453 :: 800-838-3006 or 
 Pegasus Books (3 locations), Mrs. Dalloway’s, Moe’s Books, Walden Pond, 
 DIESEL, A Bookstore; SF: Modern Times  ($15 door)   \nInformation: 
 www.kpfa.org/events    KPFA benefit\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/12/08/18702137.php
SUMMARY:Diane Ravitch: The Death and Life of the Great American School System
LOCATION:Hillside Club, 2286 Cedar St, Berkeley, CA
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/12/08/18702137.php
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