Ravitch returning to her roots

When I was a doctoral candidate at the University of Buffalo in the 1980s, Diane Ravitch was  a must reading for the neophytes in the history of American public education from the perspective of  a revisionist historian.  An article in the New York Times, on Tuesday, March 3, 2010, described her as making a u-turn  about educational reform of the American public school system. Once a staunch advocate of standardized testing, merit pay,  charters,  and  privatization, the research  project in Pakistan's education system she conducted in 2005, "convinced her that protecting the United States’ public schools was important to democracy." 
 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/03/education/03ravitch.html?pagewanted=1&em
photo credit: O Muhammad, NYT