Diane Ravitch — Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools
Lecture by Diane Ravitch and moderated discussion featuring Diane Ravitch, Linda Darling-Hammond, and Eric Hanushek. Book signing to follow.
What: Lecture featuring Diane Ravitch on her new book; followed by a moderated discussion with Ravitch, Linda Darling-Hammond, and Eric Hanushek. Ravitch book signing follows the presentation.
When: Monday, September 30, 5:15 PM (doors open at 5)
Where:
Memorial AuditoriumFor more information: Terrance TurnerFree and open to the publicHosted by the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education and co-sponsored by the Stanford Graduate School of Education
Join us for an evening with Diane Ravitch focusing on her just-released book,
Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools(Knopf, 2013).
A moderated discussion will follow. The discussion features Ravitch; Eric Hanushek, the Paul and Jean Hanna Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University; and Linda Darling-Hammond, the Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education at Stanford and founding director of SCOPE.
In
Reign of Error, Ravitch argues against privatization and for public education, and in a chapter-by-chapter breakdown, puts forth a plan for what can be done to preserve and improve public education. In her lecture, she will discuss the topics she addresses in her book, including the strengths of U.S. education, how policy makers are failing to address the root causes of educational failure, and how to effectively address the challenges.
Ravitch will sign copies of her new book following the presentation.
Diane Ravitch is Research Professor of Education at New York University. From 1991 to 1993, she was Assistant Secretary of Education; from 1997 to 2004, she was a member of the National Assessment Governing Board. She has authored numerous books, including
Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools (2013), and
The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education (2010). She is an honorary life trustee of the New York Public Library and a former Guggenheim Fellow. She was a member of the Koret Task Force at the Hoover Institution (Stanford University) from 1999 to 2009. She was a member of the board of the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation from 1996 to 2009. She blogs at
dianeravitch.net.
Web site.
Linda Darling-Hammond is Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education at Stanford University where she is Founding Director of the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education. She is a former president of the American Educational Research Association and member of the National Academy of Education. Her research and policy work focus on issues of educational equity, teaching quality, and school reform. In 2008, she served as director of President Obama's education policy transition team. Her most recent book is
Getting Teacher Evaluation Right: What Really Matters for Effectiveness and Improvement (2013)
. Full bio. 
Eric Hanushek is the Paul and Jean Hanna Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University. He has been a leader in the development of economic analysis of educational issues with his work frequently entering into the design of national and international educational policy. His research spans such diverse areas as the impact of teacher quality, high stakes accountability, equity, and efficiency in school finance, and class size reduction along with the role of cognitive skills in international growth and development. His pioneering analysis measuring teacher quality through growth in student achievement forms the basis for current research into the value-added of teachers and schools. His most recent book,
Endangering Prosperity: A Global View of the American School (2013)
, describes the cost to the U.S. of not improving its schools.
Web site.
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