Diane Ravitch
Diane Ravitch
is an author, a professor of
Education
at
New York University
(NYU), and a historian of education who sits on the board of the
National Assessment of Educational Progress
. She has been an important influence in the fields of education and history in America and has served as Assistant Secretary of Education. She is also a non-resident senior scholar at the
Brookings Institute
. She has written many books, some criticizing
left
-wing attempts to stifle the study and expression of views deemed unworthy by the left (see
political correctness
,
multiculturalism
). Though she began as an
investigative journalist
, she has been criticized as a
conservative
and even a
neo-conservative
because of her attacks on multiculturalism and calls for higher standards in public life, a central part of the neo-conservative social program.
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