What’s missing in our country’s education system and what’s the best way to correct that shortcoming? We’ll examine current issues facing our schools this hour with Diane Ravitch, author of the new book “The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education” (Basic Books, 2010). Ravitch will […]

What makes a literate person? According to Diane Ravitch, Research Professor of Education at the Steinhardt School of Education at New York University, there are certain works of literature with which one should be familiar. She along with her son Michael have edited “The English Reader: What Every Literate Person Needs to Know” (Oxford, 2006). […]