Diane Ravitch doesn’t believe in conspiracy theories, and neither do I. If you hold the belief that education is a funneling institution designed to make people dumber and more compliant and more consumerist and all that, I think you’re foolish and wrong. If, though, you talked about how one of the effects of a schooling based in testing, accountability, profit, and various other aims that are not really part of the goals of education is some version of the above, then I might agree with […]