(KFTK) – Former Assistant Secretary of Education, Professor Diane Ravitch joined Dr Tobler recently for a discussion of the current state of the education system.
Other challenges face teachers every day, says the Professor of Education at NYU, "I hear from teachers every day, becasuse I blog every day," says Ravitch. "They talk about the challenges they face and the kids who come from homes where their brother was murdered, their father is in jail. This kind of thing I never saw when I was a kid."
Ravitch says those circumstances should be eye-opening, "I think instead of complaining about how bad our public schools are, we should appreicate that they're, right now, the first line of defesne for our kids. It's still the case that about 90% of our kids in this country are in public schools."
"When people rant about the public schools, they're really ranting about, first of all, the schools that educated US," says Ravitch, "and also the schools that are educating, in most cases, 85-90% of American children."
Read her latest piece in TIME
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