Diane Silvers Ravitch (b. July 1, 1938) is a historian of education, an educational policy analyst, and former United States Assistant Secretary of Education who is now a research professor at New York University's Steinhardt School of Education. She was born in 1938 in Houston, Texas, where she went to public schools. She is a graduate of Wellesley College, has a Ph.D. from Columbia University, and lives in Brooklyn, New York City.
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- Diane Silvers Ravitch (b. July 1, 1938) is a historian of education, an educational policy analyst, and former United States Assistant Secretary of Education who is now a research professor at New York University's Steinhardt School of Education. She was born in 1938 in Houston, Texas, where she went to public schools. She is a graduate of Wellesley College, has a Ph.D. from Columbia University, and lives in Brooklyn, New York City. Her most recent book The Language Police (2003) was a criticism of both left-wing and right-wing attempts to stifle the study and expression of views deemed unworthy by those groups.. The book asserts that "pressure groups from the political right and left have wrested control of the language and content of textbooks and standardized exams, often at the expense of the truth (in the case of history), of literary quality (in the case of literature), and of education in general".
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- Delta Kappa Gamma Educators' Award
:1975, for ''The Great School Wars, New York City, 1805-1973''
:1984, for ''The Troubled Crusade: American Education, 1945- 1980''
Ambassador of Honor Award, English-Speaking Union,
:1984, for ''The Troubled Crusade''
:1985, for ''The Schools We Deserve: Reflections on the Educational Crises of Our Times''
Phi Beta Kappa visiting scholar, 1984-85
Henry Allen Moe Prize, American Philosophical Society, 1986
designated honorary citizen, State of California Senate Rules Committee, 1988, for work on state curriculum
Alumnae Achievement Award, Wellesley College, 1989
Medal of Distinction, Polish National Council of Education, 1991
Literary Lion, New York Public Library, 1992
Award for Distinguished Service, New York Academy of Public Education, 1994
Horace Kidger Award, New England History Teachers Association, 1998
Award of Excellence, St. John's University School of Education, 1998
John Dewey Education Award, United Federation of Teachers, 2005
Guggenheim fellowship
Honorary Life Trustee, New York Public Library
Gaudium Award from the Breukelein Institute, 2005
Honorary degrees from
:Williams College
:Reed College
:Amherst College
:State University of New York
:Ramapo College
:Saint Joseph's College (New York)
:Middlebury College Language Schools
:Union College
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- Joseph, Steven (deceased), Michael
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- Walter Cracker Silvers
Ann Celia (Katz) Silvers
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- Richard Ravitch (June 26, 1960–December, 1986) (divorced)
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- Diane Silvers Ravitch (b. July 1, 1938) is a historian of education, an educational policy analyst, and former United States Assistant Secretary of Education who is now a research professor at New York University's Steinhardt School of Education. She was born in 1938 in Houston, Texas, where she went to public schools. She is a graduate of Wellesley College, has a Ph.D. from Columbia University, and lives in Brooklyn, New York City.
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