Ravitch spoke about poverty being a major driver in poor results around the country.
Dana Goldstein has a profile of Diane Ravitch up at the Washington City Paper.
The new company is being partially funded by Joseph Ravitch, head of the Raine Group.
Ravitch details the twin reform eras of San Diego (under Alan Bersin) and New York City.
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Later that night, Mr. Ravitch invited Mr. Volcker to dinner at a steak house in midtown Manhattan.
He decided to move into Rockefeller Center with Mr. Ravitch and his business partner at the time.
Ravitch was for a long time an enthusiastic supporter of the choice and accountability movement in education reform.
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As for holders of New York State tax-free bonds, a renowned financial expert, Richard Ravitch, until recently Lt.
Mr. Ravitch worries Congress will try to balance the federal budget with billions of dollars in state aid cuts.
Mr. Volcker had finished up a job on Wall Street and needed an office when he ran into Mr. Ravitch.
As they get ready to leave the office that night, Mr. Ravitch retrieves a paper containing statistics on income inequality.
Ravitch has confirmed many of my suspicions, though I was not aware at quite the extent of authoritarianism in the current movement.
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Mr. Ravitch holds court with New York City officials and upstate mayors.
Diane Ravitch's important new book, The Death and Life of the Great American School System, will surely stir controversy, exactly as she intends.
Gov. Richard Ravitch warned the municipal bond industry that the promises governments have made to repay investors may not take precedent over other obligations.
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Diane Ravitch spoke with Jon Stewart on the daily show in an episode that was almost entirely devoted to the subject of teachers and education.
Mr. Ravitch, then chairman of New York State's Urban Development Corp.
Secondly, Ravitch stresses that New York must service its debt as a first priority, because it must keep open its acesss to the financial markets.
"What we are seeing in Europe is that everyone has to throw something into the pot to avoid catastrophe, " Mr. Ravitch recently told a group of municipal analysts.
Ravitch does not enumerate the exact impact on the budget.
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Diane Ravitch, who helped write California's curriculum in the 1980s, complains that every group supports every other group's plea for inclusion, resulting in a consensus for including a huge amount of new material.
The dangers represented by charter schools are increasingly being recognized by experts, as demonstrated by the recent reversal of education expert Diane Ravitch, formerly a leading advocate of charter schools and now a fierce opponent.
Once a vocal proponent of No Child Left Behind, charter schools, vouchers, and merit pay for teachers, Ravitch decided sometime around 2006 that there was actually no evidence that any of those policies improved American education.
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