Back to School.

• Author: Perl, Don
• Position: LETTERS

Back to School

Diane Ravitch's piece in your magazine ("Twenty Years of Failing the Schools," February/March issue) concisely outlines the history of the political thinking of these past twenty years: "Governors across the nation met with business leaders and decided that education was too important to leave to educators."

Ravitch calls on Miguel Cardona, President Biden's pick for Secretary of Education, to reverse the federal policies that have...