Slaying Goliath Quotes

“What I had come to understand was that the root cause of poor performance in schools is not 'bad schools' or 'bad teachers' but poverty. Closing schools and firing their teachers and principals does not help students. If anything, it introduces damaging instability into their lives. The privatizers hail disruption and call it 'creative,' but it is neither creative nor beneficial.”
― Diane Ravitch, Slaying Goliath: The Passionate Resistance to Privatization and the Fight to Save America's Public Schools