Norman Ravitch is a professor emeritus of history at University of California, Riverside. He currently writes occasional pieces for the Rockwell Foundation and other right-libertarianthink-tanks. Ravitch is known for his assertion that "It remains more than doubtful that the black population of America, or the rest of us, have really benefited from integration and civil rights legislation." Also, writing a book review on WWII Poland, he states: "While the Nazis of course had treated the Poles in murderous fashion the Poles at least could take pleasure in the fact that the Germans were doing what they would like to have done but did not have the discipline or the means -- namely kill the Jews who had outlived their precarious welcome in the new Poland." And: "Yes, Zionism can be called racist. But so what! What Jews need to do in my humble opinion is to accept the valid Zionist challenge: go to Israel or cease to be Jews! That is the only solution to the Jewish Question."
Ravitch is professor of history emeritus at the University of California, Riverside.
The South has won because, like it or not, NormanRavitch lives in a state which has an attorney general and a labor commissioner, who are African Americans.
When NormanRavitch is prepared to put his life on the line, to go to jail for his newly-found "Southern convictions," as we did for ours, we'll listen to his Yankee blather.
Ravitch, the Research Professor of Education at New York University, and an outspoken critic of Mayor Michael Bloomberg's stewardship of the New York City public schools, will be honored on May 14 at the UFT's annual spring education conference.
Ravitch, who was an assistant secretary of education in the administration of President George H.W. Bush and an appointee to the National Assessment Governing Board under President Bill Clinton, joins an impressive list of Dewey Award winners.
Ravitch has been a friend of the UFT and the AFT since the mid-1970s, when she first became friends with Albert Shanker and Sandra Feldman.
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