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Diane Ravitch

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  • Minnijean Brown, Thelma Mothershed, and Melba Pattillo (three of the Little Rock Nine), and NAACP president Daisy Bates.

    Selling Out Our Public Schools

    For decades, the term “school choice” was widely and rightly dismissed as racist. Now it’s the law in thirty-three states.
    by Diane Ravitch via New York Review of Books on February 20, 2025
  • The Dark History of School Choice

    How an argument for segregated schools became a rallying cry for privatizing public education.
    by Diane Ravitch via New York Review of Books on January 4, 2021
Book
The American Reader: Words That Moved a Nation
Diane Ravitch
1990

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