Diane Ravitch's Fraudulent Attack

Diane Ravitch's Fraudulent Attack

James Piereson on Ravitch's assault on school reform and the John M. Olin Foundation.

“Diane Ravitch’s fraudulent attack,” by James Piereson

In the March 13 issue of The New York Review of Books, Diane Ravitch published a scurrilous and overheated attack on school reform and the role the John M. Olin Foundation played decades ago in supporting scholars who promoted those reforms. As a former executive director of the John M. Olin Foundation and a supporter of charter schools and school vouchers, I was dismayed to read an article asserting that “racist” motives lay behind these effort…