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«What happens in New York always has repercussions elsewhere,» said Diane Ravitch, a New York University education historian and former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education who has since become a critic of what she sees as the corporatization of education policy.

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Today «it's the right - wing reformers who are lowering standards,» says Diane Ravitch, a former assistant secretary of education and leading critic of the corporate education - reform movement, noting that Tony Bennett's final act after losing his re-election bid, last November, as Indiana superintendent of public instruction — he was recently appointed education commissioner in Florida — was to weaken the state's requirements for new teachers.

Participating in the conversation were Russlynn Ali, assistant secretary for civil rights at the Department of Education; Joan Steitz, a molecular biophysicist at Yale University who studies RNA; Shirley Malcom, head of the directorate for education and human resources at AAAS; and Sara Seager, a planetary scientist and physicist at MIT who studies the atmospheres of planets beyond the solaEducation; Joan Steitz, a molecular biophysicist at Yale University who studies RNA; Shirley Malcom, head of the directorate for education and human resources at AAAS; and Sara Seager, a planetary scientist and physicist at MIT who studies the atmospheres of planets beyond the solaeducation and human resources at AAAS; and Sara Seager, a planetary scientist and physicist at MIT who studies the atmospheres of planets beyond the solar system.

The founder and leader of Education Post is Peter Cunningham, who was an assistant secretary for communication at the U.S. Department of Education under Arne Duncan, with whom he also served when Duncan ran Chicago Public Schools a decade ago.

Chester E. Finn Jr., who served as an assistant secretary in the U.S. Department of Education under President Reagan and is now a scholar at the conservative think tank, has also taken the helm of a little - known foundation he says will focus almost exclusively on K - 12 reform issues.

Susan Neuman is a former assistant U.S. secretary of education in the Bush administration who has enjoyed a bit of fame (and in some circles, infamy) for recanting her support for No Child Left Behind.

But they also said the policy, which has been rescinded by Secretary of Education Lamar Alexander, was under development before they arrived at the agency and was not initiated by the assistant secretary for civil rights, Michael L. Williams, who has been sharply criticizeSecretary of Education Lamar Alexander, was under development before they arrived at the agency and was not initiated by the assistant secretary for civil rights, Michael L. Williams, who has been sharply criticizesecretary for civil rights, Michael L. Williams, who has been sharply criticized for it.

Ravitch, who served as the Assistant Secretary of Education under President George H.W. Bush, famously about educatioEducation under President George H.W. Bush, famously about educationeducation reform.

The leader of this rear - guard action is Diane Ravitch, a professor at New York University who was an assistant secretary of education in the administration of George H.W. Bush.

In fact, the Clinton Administration will make history by including two former school administrators in key posts — Thomas W. Payzant, who will leave the helm of the San Diego public schools to become the assistant secretary for elementary and secondary education, and Ramon C. Cortines, a former San...

Seated among the HAA audience during Spence's speech was Kevin Jennings, assistant deputy secretary at the Department of Education and a 1985 graduate of Harvard College, who told an anecdote of his 10th Harvard reunion when he encountered a classmate who had achieved success in the corporate world but was dismayed that Jennings, a fellow Ivy League graduate, had spent the past decade as a teacher.

Mr. Marston, who has served in the department of education since 1963, will succeed John T. MacDonald, who was named assistant U.S. secretary of education for elementary and secondary education.

But critics, including education historian Diane Ravitch, a New York University professor and former assistant U.S. secretary of education who is speaking at UW - Madison on Tuesday, say choice programs have drained resources from the traditional public school system without producing conclusive evidence that they are any better at educating students, particularly low - income ones.

said Diane Ravitch, a professor of education at New York University who was assistant education secretary under President George H. W. Bush.

In the case of Diane Ravitch, who started her career as an Assistant Secretary of Education in George H.W. Bush's administration and is finishing it up as a dyed - in - the - wool teachers union shill, the American Federation of Teachers and Ravitch have an unsurprising love -LSB-...]

But as former Bush administration Assistant Secretary of Education Diane Ravitch points out, a school does not belong to 51 percent of the parents who happen to have students attending it at one specific point in time.

«Many excellent teachers will get poor ratings, and many mediocre teachers (who are good at drilling) will get high scores,» Diane Ravitch, a former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education and fierce critic of tying teacher pay to student test scores, wrote in an email to The Miami Herald.

«We've been identifying challenges and moving forward to improve the program,» said Michael Yudin, formerly the principal deputy assistant secretary for the office of elementary and secondary education, who recently became the acting assistant secretary in the office of special education.

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By third grade, it's frankly too late» to help students who have fallen way behind, said Peter Cunningham, an assistant secretary at the U.S. Department of Education.

The New York University scholar, who lives in Brooklyn, was an assistant education secretary under President George H.W. Bush, pushing unsuccessfully for national academic standards, and a member of the National Assessment Governing Board in the Clinton and second Bush administrations, helping to oversee testing policy.

This Fall, roughly a dozen states got a letter from Ann Whalen at the US Department of Education, an adviser who is acting as the assistant secretary of elementary and secondary education, reminding them that their districts need to test no less than 95 percent of all students and that the state needs an action plan to deal with those whEducation, an adviser who is acting as the assistant secretary of elementary and secondary education, reminding them that their districts need to test no less than 95 percent of all students and that the state needs an action plan to deal with those wheducation, reminding them that their districts need to test no less than 95 percent of all students and that the state needs an action plan to deal with those who do not.

Ms. Powell Jobs has assembled a team of advisers led by Russlynn H. Ali, who worked in the Obama administration's Education Department as the assistant secretary for civil rights.