Replying to @SecCardona
Schools do not exist to meet the demands of industry. They exist to help every student reach his or her full potential and build a thriving democracy, where everyone counts and participates.
Diane Ravitch 🇺🇸🇺🇦📚🌈🗽🌹🇨🇱❤️
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Diane Ravitch 🇺🇸🇺🇦📚🌈🗽🌹🇨🇱❤️
@DianeRavitch
- The best choice is your local public school. It welcomes everyone. It unifies community. It is the glue of democracy.
- Replying to @BetsyDeVosEDBetsy, You need to visit more public schools. You are stereotyping and out of touch. There is enormous variety in our classrooms, except for the standardized factory-style tests that Congress mandates.
- I am puzzled. If Congress and the Administration can agree to give trillions to corporations, big banks, airlines, and 600,000 others, why can’t they agree to appropriate $500 billion to open schools safely, in accordance with science? What about the children? and their teachers?
- The strongest supporters of high-stakes testing were never teachers.
- Any state official who insists on giving kids the state tests should also take the test and publish their scores.
- Replying to @therichfromca and @TheRichFromCaliYes. Melania is an undocumented immigrant. Barron is an anchor baby. And Elon Musk should be deported to South Africa.
- Why should I pay taxes to subsidize a religious school that would not admit my grandchildren? That’s like asking me to subsidize the private country club that discriminates. No, thank you.
- No high-performing nation tests every child every year from grades 3-8. That is NCLB requirement, based on non-existent TX miracle. Finland has no standardized tests. Others test once in elementary school, once in middle school, once in high school.
- NCLB failed. Race to the Top failed. Common Core failed. ESSA made no difference. Same kids left behind. When will they ever learn that the feds can't run public schools of the nation? And punishments don't "fix" schools.
- This is so disgusting. Employers should provide job training. Schools should provide an education that meets the needs of students.Every student should have access to an education that aligns with industry demands and evolves to meet the demands of tomorrow’s global workforce.
- What we do know about Florida is that 61% of the kids who use vouchers drop out of the private school within two years and return to their public school, far behind their peers.Replying to @DianeRavitch
- When you watch these smart and eloquent students teaching Senators and Congressmen and the media, you have to admit they are a great generation and had some wonderful teachers, who taught them to think and debate and speak.
