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«The depth of discouragement among educators in the trenches is at an all - time high and can not be overstated,» said former Assistant Secretary of Education Diane Ravitch in a recent BAM Radio interview.

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«We've lost public trust on why we test, and so we need to make sure we can tell the public why,» said Johnson, a former acting assistant secretary of education in the administration of President Bill Clinton.

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.

And though Hacker and Dreifus, a former Queens College political science professor (and frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books) and a veteran science reporter and editor, respectively, turn in what appears to be a useful essay about the challenges ahead for the CCSS, Peter Cunningham, a former assistant secretary of education, says that Hacker and Dreifus themselves «contribute greatly to the confusion and misinformation surrounding the issue of learning standards.»

Still, the president spent mounds of political capital pushing policies designed to pressure schools to help minority youth, and «it puts him in a difficult position to be signing onto something that clearly empowers states to be less aggressive in addressing inequity,» said Peter Cunningham, former assistant secretary at the Education Department and a past adviser to Secretary Arnsecretary at the Education Department and a past adviser to Secretary ArnSecretary Arne Duncan.

The 25 - year experiment with charter schools has been a failure, former Assistant Secretary of Education Diane Ravitch said this week at the annual conference of the Network for Public 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.

«If it encourages other locals to strike,» former assistant secretary of education Diane Ravitch said over e-mail, «it could have a huge impact.»

«The department makes sure that money goes through those programs to get through to the places that need it, and without the department there's no way to actually administer the hundreds of programs that are funded through the department,» said Scott Sargrad, director of standards and accountability for education policy at the Center for American Progress and former deputy assistant secretary for policy and strategic initiatives in the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education at the U.S. Department of Eeducation policy at the Center for American Progress and former deputy assistant secretary for policy and strategic initiatives in the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education at the U.S. Department of EEducation at the U.S. Department of EducationEducation.

«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 educatioeducation historian and former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education who has since become a critic of what she sees as the corporatization of educatioEducation who has since become a critic of what she sees as the corporatization of educationeducation policy.

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Education historian and former United States Assistant Secretary of Education Diane Ravitch said she opposed New York's Race to the Top application because of the increased focus on testing it brought in.

Finn, a former assistant secretary of education in the Reagan administration, said the quality of charter schools across the country varies widely, and he predicted that the results would make those overseeing charters demand more in the way of performance.

«I've never seen so many cheating scandals as there have been in the last few years,» said Diane Ravitch, a New York University education historian and former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education under Presidents George H.W. Bush and Billeducation historian and former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education under Presidents George H.W. Bush and BillEducation under Presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton.