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However, I fear it is too little too late. Our public schools (and the teaching profession) may die the same death other jobs have died in the course 30 years of ideologically driven national suicide. Ms Ravitch questions this approach. She finds that foundations, such as those of Gates, Broad, and Walton, are not accountable to the public at all. Diane Ravitch does a marvelous job in reviewing data and research pertaining to several of the education “reforms” of the past 15 years. Progressive educators tried programs such as Balanced Literacy. If there is anyone who will save public education in this nation, it is Diane Ravitch - and she should be given the Medal of Honor for being out there every day, leading the charge. In The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education Author Diane Ravitch lays out not only the case for her own transformation but also the transformation of American schools from institutions of learning to test factories.