Diane Ravitch: Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger For America's Public Schools

    KPFA Radio with

Oakland Education Association
and the Berkeley
Federation of Teachers presents

“An
Evening with DIANE RAVITCH”

“Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization
Movement

and the Danger for America’s Public Schools”

Hosted
by Philip Maldari and Introduced by Dr. Bernard R. Gifford

Saturday, Sept. 28, 7:30 pm

King Middle School, 1781

Rose Street, Berkeley

$12 advance tickets: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/451547
:: 800-838-3006  or Pegasus Books (3

locations), Marcus Books, Mrs. Dalloway’s, Moe’s Books, Walden Pond, DIESEL a Bookstore, and Modern Times  ($15 door)

$5 for public school teachers, public

school workers & students with ID: call (510) 549-2307 or

510-763-4020.     Information: www.kpfa.org/events    KPFA benefit

Diane Ravitch is one of the great whistleblowers of our
time.  The Wall Street Journal calls her our “whistleblower extraordinaire.” 

Formerly the U.S. Assistant Secretary
of Education, author of the best-selling “The
Death and Life of the Great American School System and the now-classic Great School Wars: A History of the New York City
Public Schools, Diane Ravitch draws
on forty-plus years of research and experience to critique the most popular
ideas for restructuring schools. In her new book, Reign of Error, she argues persuasively against those who claim our
system is broken, beyond repair, and obsolete, and she makes an impassioned,
fully reasoned call to stop the rising “privatization movement” that is
draining students and funding from our public schools. She puts forth a
chapter-by-chapter breakdown of what can be done to preserve public school

education. She discusses in detail how to fix these problems.

BIO: Diane Ravitch is Research
Professor of Education at New York University and a senior fellow at the
Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. Formerly she was Assistant Secretary
of Education, prior to being appointed to the National Assessment Governing
Board by the Clinton Administration. She blogs for Huffington Post.com and
EDWeek.org, and is the author or editor of twenty some including The Death and Life of the Great American

School System. Her articles have appeared in numerous newspapers and

magazines. A native of Houston, Ravitch lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Philip
Maldari, veteran
KPFA Public Affairs Producer, now hosts the Sunday Morning Show.