TheLife and Death of Schools Diane Ravitch on the real threats to public education By Richard Whittaker, Fri., Sept. 28, 2012 DianeRavitch was an education historian, who entered government work under the first Bush administration and continued to serve in the Department of Read25 reviews from the world’s largest community for readers. For the past one hundred years, Americans have argued and worried about the quality of thei PublishedJune 26, 2023, 6:54 p.m. ET. Former New York Lt. Gov. Richard Ravitch passed away on Sunday at the age of 89. AP Photo/Mike Groll, File. Richard Ravitch — who died Sunday, a dozen days DianeRavitch is an education historian, education policy activist and research professor at New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development. She served as U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education under Secretary of Education Lamar Alexander from 1991 to 1993. She publishes Diane Ravitch's blog, in which she OpEd article by education historian Diane Ravitch and United Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten says Mayor Michael R Bloomberg's railroading through of his plan to end social Twoimportant books in the field of US education, Samuel Bowles & Herbert Gintis's Schooling in Capitalist America and Diane Ravitch's Revisionists Revised, are reviewed. The author contends that the dynamic tension in the debate on US education that existed in the late 1970s when these two books were published has virtually disappeared DianeRavitch, the historian and leading education reform critic, can be hard to understand. Not that her writing is difficult. Quite the opposite actually, it's incredibly lucid and lively, and Ravitchfocuses on what she calls the “failures of Corporate Disruption” of public education ti changes aimed at operating schools as if they are businesses — and introduces readers to Thefilm "Waiting for 'Superman'" offers a one-sided and contemptuous view of public education, Diane Ravitch writes. Leadership Back Leadership GHWleo.