Common Core co-chair Diane Ravitch had an interview over the weekend in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review where–along with putting more pressure on the Dept of Ed to confront the realities of NCLB–she discusses the findings in our new report, Why We’re Behind:
“We hear all the businessmen and politicians constantly saying we’re falling behind, we’re falling further behind, etc. Well, who are we behind? We’re behind countries that have a balanced curriculum. We’re behind countries that pay as much attention to history and the arts and science and geography and literature, and all we’re doing is basic skills and teaching to the test and that’s not going to help us catch up with those countries.”
Read the full interview here.
Lynne Munson