As is often the case with apostates, Diane Ravitch exchanged one form of extremism for another. Once a conservative critic of America’s education system, Ravitch turned sharply to the Left. Her new Left-wing activism has more problems than her previous conservative fanaticism about vouchers, standardized tests, and the problems with public schools.
In her new memoir, An Education: How I Changed My Mind About Schools and Almost Everything Else, Ravitch charts how she went from a Houston childhood to a conservative education critic, arguing for school vouchers, consulted by Presidents Ronald Reagan and George HW Bush, and positioned in Republican think tanks. She finally becomes a liberal who quotes John Maynard Keyes and writes the following: “I believe that the Jesus of the New Testament was woke.”
