Moyers & Company. Public Schools for Sale?
Description
Education historian Diane Ravitch says the privatization of public education has to stop. As assistant secretary of education under President George H.W. Bush, she was an advocate of school choice and charter schools; under George W. Bush, she supported the No Child Left Behind initiative. But after careful investigation, she changed her mind, and has become, according to Salon, "the nation's highest profile opponent" of charter-based education. On this week's Moyers & Company, she tells Bill Moyers, "I think what's at stake is the future of American public education. I believe it is one of the foundation stones of our democracy: So an attack on public education is an attack on democracy.
Runtime
26 min
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Geography
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Date of Publication
[2014], c2014
Database
Films on Demand
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