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AFT Book Club: A Conversation with Diane Ravitch
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December 7, 2025 6:15 PM - 7:15 PM EST

AFT Book Club: A Conversation with Diane Ravitch

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AFT Book Club: A Conversation with Diane Ravitch

Date

December 7, 2025 6:15 PM - 7:15 PM EST

Location

Online

Cost

Free

Credit

Attributes

Good for Parents
Subject Professional Learning • Social Studies — State and Local History, US History
Grade Level PreK, Grades K-12, Professional Development, Paraprofessional and School Related Personnel, Specialized Instructional Support Personnel

About This Webinar

Join AFT President Randi Weingarten for a thought-provoking conversation with historian and education advocate Diane Ravitch about her new memoir, An Education: How I Changed My Mind About Schools and Almost Everything Else. Once a leading voice for high-stakes testing and school choice, Ravitch reflects on what led her to challenge those ideas and become one of the strongest defenders of public education. 

Together, they’ll explore her decades-long journey—from policymaker to activist—and what her transformation means for teachers, students, and the future of public schools.

Learn more about the AFT Book Club. Register for all sessions here.

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Speakers

https://dianeravitch.comDiane Ravitch

Historian of Education, Best-Selling Author  

Diane Ravitch was a Research Professor of Education at New York University from 1995-2020 and is a historian of education. She is the Founder and President of the Network for Public Education (NPE). NPE has 350,000 followers and is the single largest organization of parents and teachers and other citizens working to stop the privatization of public education and the misuse of standardized testing. Its goal is to preserve, protect and improve public schools.

Diane’s book “Reign of Error” was a national bestseller on the New York Times best-seller list. Her memoirs, "An Education: How I Changed My Mind About Almost Everything", will be published in fall of 2025 by Columbia University Press.

Diane Ravitch’s Blog is dianeravitch.net and has received over 42 million hits.

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Profile picture for user Randi Weingarten
President, AFT

RANDI WEINGARTEN is president of the 1.8 million-member AFT, AFL-CIO, which represents teachers; paraprofessionals and school-related personnel; higher education faculty and staff; nurses and other healthcare professionals; local, state and federal government employees; and early childhood educators. The AFT champions fairness; democracy; economic opportunity; and high-quality public education, healthcare and public services for students, their families and communities. The AFT and its members advance these principles through community engagement, organizing, collective bargaining and political activism, and especially through members’ work.

Professional Credit

Share My Lesson webinars are available for one-hour of PD credit. A certificate of completion will be available for download at the end of your session that you can submit for your school's or district's approval.

In addition, Share My Lesson has arrangements in place as follows:

Reviews

4.0
1 Reviews
stefanteach
stefanteach December 07, 2025
Thank you Diane for all of…

Thank you Diane for all of your work as a scholar and as an activist. Your books so clearly lay out the consequences of corporate school reform and attempts to privatize. You have provided us with the ammo we need to continue the fight against the enemies of public education and the internal enemies of democracy.

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