Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting to get different results is said to be a form of insanity.
Paul Thomas of Furman University in South Carolina shows how this definition of insanity applies to what is called “education reform” today.
Thomas’s error in this chart is assuming that the goal of the current restructuring of education is to improve or reform schools. If you think of the goal as privatization, it all makes perfect sense. That’s why I have changed my own vocabulary to use the word privatization to describe this movement.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
But this has been the history of education reform for a century now. Maybe it’s time to concede that education is about intellectual development and must be nurtured–not delivered–and focus on a strong curriculum–I’d start with that proposed by The Committee of Ten or the Paideia–and stop looking at schools as centers of training and indoctrination.
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Enforced inequities that have been going on for a long time – but it doesn’t seem to bother Diane: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/27/education/a-grueling-admissions-test-highlights-a-racial-divide.html?_r=1
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