The education historian supported No Child Left Behind at first, but has since drastically changed her views.

Up until recently, Diane Ravitch , an education historian at NYU, was considered one of the nation’s foremost conservative education scholars—a big fan of school choice and of No Child Left Behind . She’d served as an assistant secretary of education under George H. W. Bush and, while serving as a visiting fellow at the conservative Hoover Institution, she penned a newspaper Op-Ed that …

For 25 years, a reform movement has driven education policies around the nation. We saw it take root in Texas with the 1985 no-pass, no-play law, and it has been alive in Washington with efforts like the bipartisan No Child Left Behind Act.

For 25 years, a reform movement has driven education policies around the nation. We saw it take root in Texas with the 1985 no-pass, no-play law, and it has been alive in Washington with efforts like the bipartisan No Child Left Behind Act.