biography
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Ravitch, Diane
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née Silvers
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| sex:
| female
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| lived:
| (1938– )
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| biography:
| Educator and historian, born in Houston, Texas, USA. An educational historian at Teachers College, Columbia (from 1975), she was appointed assistant secretary of education in 1991. She helped define the neo-Conservative agenda for school reform in such works as The Troubled Crusade (1983) and What Do Our Seventeen-Year Olds Know? (co-authored, 1987). |
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