She believes resistance is growing, which is true, but the trouble is both our political parties are in bed with the same neoliberal interests in dismantling not only public education, but ALL public institutions.
This is also a worldwide trend.
Thirty or more years of neoliberal propaganda has exacted a toll, and I am not sure growing opposition isn't too little, too late.
Ravitch:
Of one thing I feel sure—history will not be kind to those who gleefully attacked teachers, sought to fire them based on inaccurate measures, and worked zealously to reduce their status and compensation. It will not admire the effort to insert business values into the work of educating children and shaping their minds, dreams, and character. It will not forgive those who forgot the civic, democratic purposes of our schools nor those who chipped away at the public square. Nor will it speak well of those who put the quest for gain over the needs of children. Nor will it lionize those who worshipped data and believed passionately in carrots and sticks. Those who will live forever in the minds of future generations are the ones who stood up against the powerful on behalf of children, who demanded that every child receive the best possible education, the education that the most fortunate parents would want for their own children.
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