On October 8, 2011, Diane was interviewed by Christine Romans for the program Your Bottom Line on CNN:
On April 28, Diane was interviewed by Terry Gross on NPR’s Fresh Air.
Diane appeared on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart on March 3, 2011. Here is the interview:
The Star-Ledger (Newark, NJ), “Q&A with Diane Ravitch on N.J. School Reform,” November 13, 2010.
Mother Jones, “The Education of Diane Ravitch,” interview with Kristina Rizga, March 10, 2011.
Huffington Post (blog), “Five Questions For Diane Ravitch,” interview with Larry Ferlazzo, January 26, 2011.
The Answer Sheet (blog), Washington Post, “Ravitch Answers Gates,” interview with Valerie Strauss, November 30, 2010.
REdu (blog), “Diane Ravitch Skewers Every Education Reform Sacred Cow,” interview with Liz Dwyer, November 18, 2010.
voiceofsandiego.org, “The Education Historian with an Eye on SD,” interview with Emily Alpert, November 4, 2010.
voiceofsandiego.org, “Taking No Prisoners in San Diego Schools,” interview with Emily Alpert, June 25, 2010.
The Answer Sheet (blog), Washington Post, “Ravitch to Obama: ‘Change Course Before It Is Too Late,’” interview with Valerie Strauss, June 22, 2010.
Catalyst, “Q&A with Diane Ravitch, Author, New York University Professor,” May 28, 2010.
City Newspaper (Rochester, NY), “Education: A Former Bush Official’s Reservations About Mayoral Control,” interview with Tim Louis Macaluso, May 19, 2010.
Columbus Education Association, interview, May 19, 2010.
Slate, “Diane Ravitch on Being Wrong,” interview with Kathryn Schulz, May 17, 2010.
Dallas Morning News, “Diane Ravitch on Testing, Accountability, Curriculum, Charters, and Much More,” May 17, 2010.
Dallas Morning News, “Point Person: Our Q&A with Diane Ravitch,” May 14, 2010.
OnMilwaukee.com, “Ravitch’s Book Has Lessons for Milwaukee Schools,” interview with Bobby Tanzilo, May 11, 2010.
Barnes & Noble Review, “Diane Ravitch: A Conversation with James Mustich,” April 26, 2010.
Southern Weekly (China), interview with Tim Hathaway, April 22, 2010.
California English, “Diane Ravitch on What Students Need to Know, Why We Fail to Deliver, and Life in the Blogosphere,” interview with Barbara Bartholomew, April 2010.
The Economist, “Seven Questions for Diane Ravitch,” interview on Democracy in America (blog), March 29, 2010.
Salon, interview with Mary Elizabeth Williams, March 26, 2010.
U.S. News & World Report, “Diane Ravitch: No Child Left Behind, Reform Killing Public Education,” interview with Kenneth Terrell (text), March 25, 2010.
NYU Steinhardt, interview, March 24, 2010.
Public School Insights (blog), interview with Claus von Zastrow, March 16, 2010.
Living in Dialogue (blog), Education Week, interview with Anthony Cody, March 8, 2010.
Newsweek, “What's College for Anyway? A Debate over the Role of Higher Education,” with Lee Bollinger, Michael Crow, Elaine Tuttle Hansen, Robert Zemsky, Diane Ravitch, and Newsweek Deputy Editor Debra Rosenberg, October 26, 2009.
Diane was interviewed as part of Oakland University's Podcasts for Leaderful Schools series, December 8, 2011 (also available via iTunes)
Washington State School Directors’ Association President Mary Fertakis, interviewed Diane prior to her keynote address to the 2011 WSSDA Annual Conference in Bellevue, WA, November 19, 2011.
Ross Reynolds interviewed Diane on the KUOW program The Conversation, November 18, 2011.
Kathleen Dunn of Wisconsin Public Radio, interviewed Diane on her program, October 20, 2011.
NPR, Talk of the Nation, “What Works To Close The Education Gap” featuring Angel Harris and Diane Ravitch, August 22, 2011.
NAESP Radio, the National Association of Elementary School Principals spoke to Diane, asking “Why Are Principals So Demoralized and How to Recover the Passion,” August 2011.
CBS News interviewed Diane for a segment titled “Atlanta Testing Scandal and ‘No Child Left Behind,’” July 6, 2011.
euronews interviews Diane for a segment reporting on U.S. charter schools, May 20, 2011.
NPR, interview on Fresh Air with Terry Gross, April 28, 2011.
THIRTEEN Eye on Education series, interview with Rafael Pi Roman, March 18, 2011.
KUOR, interview on The Madeleine Brand Show, March 10, 2011.
The Daily Show, Diane was Jon Stewart’s guest to discuss the state of American education and The Death and Life of the Great American School System, March 3, 2011. (video above)
Arizona Public Media, interview with Kimberly Craft on Arizona Illustrated, February 16, 2011.
WBAI, interview with Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark on Beyond the Pale, January 2, 2011.
KUSI-TV, interview on Good Morning San Diego, November 4, 2010.
KPBS, interview on the program These Days, November 4, 2010.
The Educator’s Personal Learning Network (PLN), Recording of Diane’s “live video chat with Educator’s PLN,”, October 19, 2010.
Merced (CA) Sun-Star, “Education Reform in Merced,” interview with Danielle Gaines (podcast), August 27, 2010.
WGBH, “The Emily Rooney Show: Race to the Top,” interview with guest host Kara Miller, August 25, 2010.
KPCC, “California Loses Race to the Top, Again,” Patt Morrison interviewing Ramon Cortines, Marty Hittelman, and Diane Ravitch, August 24, 2010.
KUOW, interview on The Conversation with Ross Reynolds, August 2, 2010.
Democracy Now, “Obama Defends Sweeping Education Reforms in Face of Criticism from Minority and Teachers’ Groups,” (Juan Gonzalez and Amy Goodman interviewing Diane Ravitch and Leonie Haimson), July 30, 2010.
GRITtv, “Diane Ravitch: Race to the Top or Skim off the Top?,” interview with Laura Flanders, posted July 20, 2010.
CUNY TV, interview on City Talk with Doug Muzzio, part 1 and part 2, June 1, 2010.
WEAA, interview on The Marc Steiner Show, May 27, 2010.
WNYC, interview on The Leonard Lopate Show, May 25, 2010.
WSHU (NPR), “Two Sides of ‘Race to the Top’ Debate,” Mark Herz interviewing Diane Ravitch and Alex Johnston, May 14, 2010.
T.E.N. (The Education Network, School District of Palm Beach County), “The State of Education: A Dialogue with Dr. Diane Ravitch,” interview with Alan Gerstel, May 12, 2010.
Education News Colorado, interview with Nancy Mitchell and debate with Senator Mike Johnston, April 30, 2010.
WXXI, interview on 1370 Connection with Bob Smith, April 21, 2010.
U.S. News & World Report, “Diane Ravitch: Charter Schools Won’t Save the School System,” interview with Kenneth Terrell (podcast), April 19, 2010.
KPFA, interview on The Morning Show with Brian Edwards-Tiekert, April 16, 2010.
KQED, interview on Forum with Michael Krasny, April 14, 2010.
PBS, interview with Tavis Smiley, April 13, 2010.
KPCC (Southern California Public Radio), interview with Patt Morrison, April 12, 2010.
EconTalk, interview with Russ Roberts, April 12, 2010 (recorded April 7).
WBEZ (Chicago Public Radio), interview on Eight Forty-Eight, April 8, 2010.
BBC, “No Child Left Behind Has Been a Failure,” interview on World News America with Matt Frei, April 8, 2010.
MSNBC, interview with Andrea Mitchell, March 26, 2010 (transcript here).
MSNBC, interview with Monica Novotny, March 18, 2010.
PBS, Jeffrey Brown interviewing Bob Wise and Diane Ravitch on Newshour, March 17, 2010.
Economic Policy Institute, interview, March 15, 2010.
eSN.TV, interview with eSchool News, February 11, 2010; posted March 12, 2010.
WAMU 88.5 FM, interview on The Diane Rehm Show, March 11, 2010.
C-SPAN, “After Words with Diane Ravitch,” interview on BookTV with Valerie Strauss, March 10, 2010.
WNYC, interview on The Brian Lehrer Show, March 8, 2010.
Democracy Now, interview with Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez, part 1 and part 2, March 5 and March 8, 2010.
NRO Radio, interview on Between the Covers with John J. Miller, March 2, 2010.
NPR, “Former ‘No Child Left Behind’ Advocate Turns Critic,” interview on Morning Edition with Steve Inskeep, March 2, 2010.
Learning Matters, “Race to the Top: Podcast—Play Money,” interview with John Merrow, December 3, 2009.
Learning Matters, “Privatization Will Not Help Us Achieve Our Goals,” interview with John Merrow, August 4, 2009.
The Daily Show, interview with Jon Stewart about The Language Police, May 14, 2003.
NPR, interview on Fresh Air with Terri Gross about The Language Police, April 29, 2003.
WAMU 88.5 FM, interview on The Diane Rehm Show about Left Back, September 29, 2000.
C-SPAN, interview with Brian Lamb on BookTV about Left Back, September 2000.