| Diane Ravitch  AKA Diane Silvers
Born: 1-Jul-1938
Birthplace: Houston, TX
Gender: Female
Religion: Jewish
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Government Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Education reformer NYU professor Diane Ravitch was a Democrat when she was recruited to join the first Bush administration as Assistant Secretary of Education (1991-93). Years later, she left the Democratic party and registered as an Independent. Now she is a member of two think tanks: the Brookings and Hoover institutions. Father: Wlater Cracker Silvers
Mother: Ann Celia Katz
Husband: Richard Ravitch (m. 1960, div. 1986, three sons)
Son: (b. 1964)
Son: (b. 1966, dec. 1967, leukemia)
Son: Michael (b. 1967)
High School: San Jacinto High School, Houston, TX (1956)
University: BA, Wellesley College (1960)
University: PhD History, Columbia University (1975)
Professor: Columbia University (1975-91)
Brookings Institution Visiting Senior Scholar
Common Good Advisory Board
Friends of Joe Lieberman
Hillary Clinton for President
Hoover Institution Distinguished Visiting Fellow
New America Foundation Board of Directors
Phi Beta Kappa Society
Guggenheim Fellowship
Bessarabian Ancestry Maternal side
Official Website:
http://www.dianeravitch.com/
Author of books:
The Great School Wars: New York City, 1805-1973 (1975)
The Schools We Deserve: Reflections on the educational crises of our times (1985)
The Troubled Crusade: American Education, 1945-1980 (1985)
What Do Our 17-Year Olds Know? A Report on the First National Assessment of History and Literature (1987, with Chester E. Finn)
The Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn (2003)
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