Several years ago, I endowed a lecture series at my alma mater, Wellesley College, focused on education issues. This year’s lecture will be live-streamed on April 12, and the speaker is Helen Ladd, an emeritus professor at Duke University and one of the nation’s leading economists. I hope you will mark the event on your calendar and tune in.
The Diane Silvers Ravitch ’60 Lecture
How Charter Schools Disrupt Good Education Policy
Tuesday, April 12, 4 p.m. ET
LIVESTREAMED at www.wellesley.edu/live
Speaker: Helen F. Ladd ’67, Susan B. King Professor Emerita of Public Policy and Economics at Duke University
Ladd will draw on her many years of education research and discuss the four central requirements of good education policy in the U.S., and how charter schools, as currently designed and operated, typically do far more to interfere with, rather than to promote, good education policy in the U.S.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
disrupt and destroy
disrupt, destroy and DRAMAtize in the name of manipulating voters
Market forces, in any amount, at any level, in any humanitarian pursuit such as education simply do not belong. Competition for money detracts from the goals. Simply.
If we cannot watch this live, will of be recorded and posted at a later date?
Yes, the talk by Helen Ladd will be recorded and I will post it here.
She is an economist who has studied school choice for many years, in other nations and here.
Brilliant.