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In Pursuit of Cultural Freedom: Diane Ravitch with Jesse Hagopian

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I recently went to Santa Fe, New Mexico to join best selling author Diane Ravitch in dialogue about the struggle for public education for the Lannan Foundation’s “In Pursuit of Cultural Freedom” forum. Below are the videos of my introduction to Diane, her speech focusing on the struggle against high-stakes testing, and our dialogue about …

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Twitter Storm: Call for Congressional Hearings on Abuses of High-Stakes Testing

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I recently had the honor of presenting at the Network for Public Education's first national conference in Austin, Texas, which brought together many of the people who inspire me most in the struggle to defend public education. During Diane Ravitch's keynote address, she made an appeal for lawmakers to thoroughly investigate the abuses of standardized …

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