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Diane Ravitch on Mayoral Control

By Stuart Buck, Esq.

If Diane Ravitch insists that there's no evidence on a particular point, you can be almost certain that there is. Here's her piece on mayoral control, from a recent issue of Phi Delta Kappan: Matt Miller of the Center for American Progress . . . argued that local control and local school boards are the basic cause of poor student performance. . . . In an ideal world, he wrote, we would scrap local boards and replace them with mayoral control, especially in urban districts. This one act of removing all democratic governance, he claimed, would lead to better education. . . . There is not a shred of evidence in Miller?s article or in the research literature that schools improve when democratic governance ends.Once again, Ravitch misrepresents the literature...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Buck Stops Here on March 24, 2010 (boomark / email).