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Diane Ravitch is an author, a professor of Education at New York University (NYU), and a historian of education who sits on the board of the National Assessment of Educational Progress . She has been an important influence in the fields of education and history in America and has served as Assistant Secretary of Education. She is also a non-resident senior scholar at the Brookings Institute . She has written many books, some criticizing left -wing attempts to stifle the study and expression of views deemed unworthy by the left (see political correctness , multiculturalism ). Though she began as an investigative journalist , she has been criticized as a conservative and even a neo-conservative because of her attacks on multiculturalism and calls for higher standards in public life, a central part of the neo-conservative social program. v t e1
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July 1, 1938) is a historian of education, an educational policy analyst, and former United States Assistant Secretary of Education who is now a research professor at New York University 's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development .Fee via Fairfax County Public Library , accessed 2009-05-16.Gaudium Award 2005 : Cite has empty unknown parameters: |month= and |coauthors= ( help )
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Diane Silvers Ravitch (born July 1, 1938) is a historian of education, an educational policy analyst, and a research professor at New York University 's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development . Previously, she was a U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education . Fee via Fairfax County Public Library , accessed 2009-05-16. Gaudium Award 2005 : Cite has empty unknown parameters: |month= and |coauthors= ( help )
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Diane Silvers Ravitch (born July 1, 1938) is a historian of education, an educational policy analyst, and a research professor at New York University 's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development . Previously, she was a U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education . In 2010s she became "an activist on behalf of public schools".Ravitch writes for the New York Review of Books . Fee via Fairfax County Public Library , accessed 2009-05-16.
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American historian and educational policy analyst "The Language Police" redirects here. Diane Silvers Ravitch (born July 1, 1938) is a historian of education, an educational policy analyst, and a research professor at New York University 's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development . Previously, she was a U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education . In 2010, she became "an activist on behalf of public schools". Ravitch writes for the New York Review of Books . Fee via Fairfax County Public Library , accessed 2009-05-16.
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American historian and educational policy analyst "The Language Police" redirects here. Diane Silvers Ravitch (born July 1, 1938) is a historian of education, an educational policy analyst, and a research professor at New York University 's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development . Previously, she was a U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education . Ravitch writes for the New York Review of Books . Fee via Fairfax County Public Library , accessed 2009-05-16. The New York Review of Books . n.d.
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