Brookings Papers on Education Policy: 2005 - Diane Ravitch

Contents include: Test-Based Accountability: The Promise and the Perils Tom Loveless (Brookings)Can the Federal Government Improve Education Research? Brian Jacob (Harvard University) and Jens Ludwig (Georgetown University )Realizing the Promise of Brand-Name Schools Steven F.Wilson (Harvard University)School Choice: How an Abstract Idea Became a Political Reality Joseph P. Viteritti (Hunter College, CUNY)Education Reform and Content: The Long View E.D. Hirsch Jr. (Core Knowledge Foundation)Evidence-Based Reading Policy in the United States: How Scientific Research Informs Instructional Practices Reid Lyon and Vinita Chhabra (National Institutes of Health) and Sally E. Shaywitz and Bennett A. Shaywitz (Yale University).

Diane Ravitch, former Assistant Secretary of Educational Research and Improvement at the U.S. Department of Education, is the author of numerous books, including The Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn (Knopf, 2003), Left Back: A Century of Battles over School Reform (Simon & Schuster, 2001), and National Standards in American Education: A Citizen's Guide (Brookings, 1995).