Sharon M. Ravitch, Ph.D. is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania s Graduate School of Education where she is Research Co-Director at the Center for the Study of Boys and Girls Lives and a Founding Co-Director of Penn s Inter-American Educational Leadership Network. She serves as the Principal Investigator of Semillas Digitales (Digital Seeds) a multi-year applied development research initiative in Nicaragua (http: //www2.gse.upenn.edu/nicaragua/).
Ravitch s research integrates across the fields of qualitative research, education, applied development, cultural anthropology, an...