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							<title><![CDATA[The Education Reform Movement Has Failed America]]></title>
							<link>https://time.com/5775795/education-reform-failed-america/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 04 Feb 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Diane Ravitch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[From George W. Bush to Trump, administrations have pushed education reforms that have failed to improve results. Time for common sense.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Are Schools Judged by Standardized Test Results?]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/145935/settling-scores</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 27 Dec 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Diane Ravitch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In 1979, the psychologist Donald Campbell proposed an axiom. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'The more any quantitative social indicator is used for social decision-making,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' he wrote, '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'the more subject it will be to corruption pressures and the more apt it will be to distort and corrupt the social...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Common Core Costs Billions and Hurts Students]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/24/opinion/sunday/the-common-core-costs-billions-and-hurts-students.html?ref=opinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Diane Ravitch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[FOR 15 years, since the passage of George W. Bush'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s No Child Left Behindact, education reformers have promoted standardized testing, school choice, competition and accountability (meaning punishment of teachers and schools) as the primary means of improving education. For many...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why I Will Support the Democratic Nominee]]></title>
							<link>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/diane-ravitch/my-choice-for-president_b_10145992.html?ncid=edlinkushpmg00000090</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 29 May 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Diane Ravitch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I have my own blog, with many readers (approaching 27 million hits). Lately, the readers have been debating, sometimes fiercely, the current presidential race. Many have asked them where I stand. Here is my answer.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' I have been consistently even-handed in the presidential race in...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Michelle Rhee Is Wrong About School Reform]]></title>
							<link>http://schoolsofthought.blogs.cnn.com/2012/08/09/my-view-rhee-is-wrong-and-misinformed/?hpt=op_t1</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Diane Ravitch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A few days ago, CNN interviewed former D.C. schools chancellor Michelle Rhee about American education. Rhee, predictably, said that American education is terrible, that test scores are flat, and that we are way behind other nations on international tests.I disagree with Rhee. She...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A New Agenda for School Reform]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/01/AR2010040101468.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Diane Ravitch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I used to be a strong supporter of school accountability and choice. But in recent years, it became clear to me that these strategies were not working. The federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) program enacted in 2002 did not produce large gains in reading and math. The gains in math were...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Obama Education Agenda]]></title>
							<link>http://www.forbes.com/opinions/2008/11/09/obama-education-president-oped-cx_dr_1109ravitch.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Diane Ravitch</author>
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