--- title: Diane Ravitch | TIME description: Ravitch's new book is Slaying Goliath: The Passionate Resistance to Privatization and the fight to Save America's Public Schools. She is a research professor of education at New York University and the author of eleven books. canonical: https://time.com/author/diane-ravitch/ og:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates og:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:url: https://time.com/author/diane-ravitch/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 300 og:image:height: 300 og:image:alt: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:type: profile twitter:card: summary twitter:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates twitter:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Diane Ravitch ## Diane Ravitch Ravitch's new book is [Slaying Goliath: The Passionate Resistance to Privatization and the fight to Save America's Public Schools](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0525655379/ref=as%5Fli%5Fqf%5Fasin%5Fil%5Ftl?ie=UTF8&tag=time037-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0525655379&linkId=795adbd735d69a2205074df7df8fc77a). She is a research professor of education at New York University and the author of eleven books. ## Diane Ravitch *  Feb 1, 2020 ### [The Education Reform Movement Has Failed America. We Need Common Sense Solutions That Work.](https://time.com/5775795/education-reform-failed-america/) [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/diane-ravitch/","name":"Diane Ravitch"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/diane-ravitch/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/diane-ravitch/"},"name":"Diane Ravitch","jobTitle":null,"description":"Ravitch's new book is Slaying Goliath: The Passionate Resistance to Privatization and the fight to Save America's Public Schools. She is a research professor of education at New York University and the author of eleven books.","url":"https://time.com/author/diane-ravitch/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```