A poll about how liberal whites in theory would like quality education for all children but they dont want busing and i so lets just begin there we we know what works. We do and one of the things i think i discovered reading this book because youre to research the book to write it and it wasnt that i knew all of this before i started to research the book how well we know how to educate kids who are poor kids who are black kids who are let next how many teachers experiments schools superintendents weve head who have done it well and so looking over time again of the book is actually goes back to reconstruction post reconstruction and makes this argument from polls reconstruction up to the 21st century and and what i found is that there is generally support for. Educational experimentation for idiosyncratic forms of education for things that sound right to people who are not in those schools not in those communities that make sense to them but the actual things that we know building up s
Profit from the selling of education all in the name of rectifying the gross injustices meted out to poor boys and girls joining me in the studio to discuss our system of educational apartheid and the corporations who have found a way to profit from it is no leeway roques professor at Cornell University and the author of Cutting School privatization segregation and the end of Public Education. Very important book thank you so minutes and from the start you lay out that we do know how to educate but there is fierce resistance. Not only among the ruling elites but among the liberal class i think at one point you quote a poll about how liberal whites in theory would like quality education for all children but they dont want busing right so lets just begin there we know what works. We do and one of the things i think ive discovered reading this book because youre to research the book to write it and it wasnt that i knew all of this before i started to research the book how well we know how
Poor the way it educates the wealthy and it certainly does not educate them with the wealthy the separate segregated and unequal forms of education divided largely along the lines of race has punishes lee given rise to an industry that seeks to profit from the selling of education all in the name of rectifying the gross injustices meted out to poor boys and girls joining me in the studio to discuss our system of educational apartheid and the corporations who have found a way to profit from it is no leeway roques professor at Cornell University and the author of Cutting School privatization segregation and the end of Public Education. Very important book thank you so minutes and from the start you lay out. That we do know how to educate but there is fierce resistance. Not only among the ruling elites but among the liberal class i think of one point you quote a poll about how liberal whites in theory would like quality education for all children but they dont want busing right so lets ju
I am a Kindergarten Teacher currently serving as president of the united educators of San Francisco. [applause] how many educators in the room today . Community supporters . Also San Francisco board of education if you see the others walkin and gabriella lopez. Happy to have everyone here. Of course we are here to hear diane we have some housekeeping items. Retired school one social studies teacher is passing out cards on which you can write questions. The format will be diane and i will talk for a little while and then we will open the floor to questions from the audience. The questions will come from the cards and that way we will know five different people are asking the question then we can ask the question so with that would like to give a little introduction and a lot of people here been following her a long time but i would like to give an introduction. A champion for Public Schools across the country drawing on over 40 years of research and experience and is one of the nations
So happy to have everyone here. Of course we are here to listen to Diane Ravitch. I have a couple housekeeping items, can a retired social studies teacher from San Francisco talk here at one time, is passing out cards on which you can write questions. So our format will be diane and i are going to talk for a little while. And then we will open the floor to questions from the audience. And the questions will come from the cards and that way we will know if a lot of people are asking the same question we have the cards and will know to ask that question. So i would like to give a little introduction i know a lot of people have been following Diane Ravitch for long time. Diane ravitch as a champion for schools around the country drawing on over 40 years of research and experience ravitch is one of the nations leading advocates for Public Education. Her years of experience, working in the government shaped her approach to education and gave her a unique and powerful perspective which she b