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A dedicated historian of education, Diane Ravitch is Research Professor of Education at New York University and holds the Brown Chair in Education Policy at the Brookings Institution. A former Assistant Secretary in the US Department of Education, she was appointed to the National Assessment Governing Board by President Bill Clinton. Her latest book, Language Police, takes lobbyists to task for bowdlerizing the language and content of textbooks and standardized exams.