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Saturday, August 15, 2015

My Honest Thoughts on Ravitch

Someone sent me an email asking my honest thoughts on Ravitch.  I did a quick search at SM, and here are some of them:

Ravitch Finds Solace in Bernie's Education Policy Ignorance
Aug 10, 2015
Diane Ravitch uses some of her best reverse logic to try to justify the NPE/AFT/NEA/Fairtest embrace of the federal capitulation on ESEA to states rights proponents and paternalistic corporate welfare kings. Yes, Bernie signed ...
http://www.schoolsmatter.info/

Ravitch Rationalizes NEA/AFT/NPE Pro-Charter Position
Jun 26, 2015
The anti-reformy groups and self-promoting individuals that crouch under the Ravitch umbrella, along with the bloggers who are kept in line by NPE's censorious Anthony Cody and Jon Pelto, go about their business ...
http://www.schoolsmatter.info/

Tucker and Ravitch Lock Arms to Support Testing Genocide
Jun 10, 2015
Tucker and Ravitch Lock Arms to Support Testing Genocide "every couple of years". The big "debate" going on in anti-reformy ed circles seems to center on whether to embrace child abuse by standardized testing every year ...
http://www.schoolsmatter.info/

Schools Matter: Ravitch and Weingarten Sign on to Charter ...
Mar 05, 2015
As may be expected, both Weingarten and Ravitch embraced the new plan on the same day to make sure that charters may continue expanding unimpeded, and that Hillary can claim support by AFT, NEA, and Diane Ravitch.

Ravitch Lashes Out at Union Misleadership Critique
Jul 15, 2014
When Diane Ravitch spoke at the National Association of School Psychologists in February 2012, her hefty speaking fee was paid for by none other than Pearson. Yes, that Pearson. When challenged on one of the listservs by ...
http://www.schoolsmatter.info/

Ravitch Continues to Dissemble and Mislead on ESEA
Jan 24, 2015
What Ravitch does not say here is that her chum's "option 1" continues high stakes testing, just less of it (it's sort of like a law against half the murders committed). What she does not say, either, is how she can be against high ...
http://www.schoolsmatter.info/

Schools Matter: Attacking Diane Ravitch? Or Questions Too ...
Jul 17, 2014
Anyone who reads my post on Ravitch's snarling defensiveness can see, if she wants to see, that my interest was and is in Ravitch's strident response to Carroll, rather than in Carroll's allegations. It is what Ravitch says in her ...
http://www.schoolsmatter.info/

Schools Matter: Ravitch Surrenders to Another Generation ...
Jan 20, 2015
This morning Ravitch posted her official letter of surrender to Lamar Alexander, reminding him of what a small "d" democratic saint he really is and letting him know that she supports Option 1 of NCLB 2.0. Besides preserving ...
http://www.schoolsmatter.info/

Schools Matter: Ravitch and Cody Announce the Imminent ...
Dec 22, 2014
On December 16 Diane Ravitch reported, incorrectly as it turns out, that Teach for America has closed its New York offices. The next day Anthony Cody took that incorrect news to spin a tale about the impending collapse of ...
http://www.schoolsmatter.info/

Schools Matter: Ravitch and Cody Will Host NEA and AFT ...
Jan 07, 2015
Ravitch and Cody Will Host NEA and AFT Presidents at April 2015 NPE Talkathon. I'm glad to see that NPE has finally decided to openly put their agenda where their wallet is: with the corporate union misleadership. Last year ...
http://www.schoolsmatter.info/

Schools Matter: Isenberg Offers Antidote to the Ravitch ...
Oct 21, 2014
When Diane Ravitch published Death and Life of the Great American School System, it broke down a bunch of barriers and gained mainstream attention for long-neglected insights and observations that formed the core of her ...
http://www.schoolsmatter.info/

Schools Matter: Diane Ravitch's Mutating Common Core ...
Jun 11, 2014
As the opposition to Common Core has spread and deepened, Diane Ravitch's position has undergone a strange metamorphosis. She had this to say at Huffington Post on March 24 in a piece entitled "The Fatal Flaw of the ...
http://www.schoolsmatter.info/

Schools Matter: Why Does Diane Ravitch Continue to ...
Nov 20, 2014
And so it is a puzzle to many people why Diane Ravitch continues to disparage only the small minority of charters that are openly "for profit." Is it because her conversion from the deform agenda is incomplete? Is it because her ...
http://www.schoolsmatter.info/

Schools Matter: Ravitch Backs AFT Corporate Innovation ...
Nov 11, 2014
For those who have denied the danger that Diane Ravitch represents to the testing resistance movement, have a look at this latest attempt to garner support for Weingarten's latest efforts to keep alive the maggot-infested body ...
http://www.schoolsmatter.info/

Schools Matter: Ravitch and Cody Host Another Talkfest As ...
Oct 04, 2014
Ravitch and Cody Host Another Talkfest As Wall Street Charter Organizers Put Thousands in the Streets. In the wake of the hedge funders' loud pro-charter demonstration last week in New York, the unending talkathon that is ...
http://www.schoolsmatter.info/

The Ravitch Conference, Featuring Randi Weingarten
Jan 12, 2014
Diane Ravitch and Anthony Cody started a new organization a year or so ago called the Network for Public Education. Board members were chosen, and the chosen board members chose Ravitch as President and Cody as ...
http://www.schoolsmatter.info/

Schools Matter: Ravitch Waves Goodbye to Common Core ...
Jul 06, 2014
I read both of Diane Ravitch's books that she wrote after her conversion experience and subsequent surrender of her honored chair with the boys at Hoover/Koret/Fordham, and I kept looking to find out the real history of ...
http://www.schoolsmatter.info/

Schools Matter: In Denouncing Common Core, Ravitch ...
Mar 25, 2014
Even back to the days when Diane Ravitch was a trusted employee of the Bush I Administration, she was an advocate for voluntary national curriculum standards. She has continued to hold this position, even as her previous ...

Ravitch Warms to Tuckerism: Can Randi Be Far Ahead?
Sep 04, 2014
In the most facile and misleading way, Diane Ravitch has posted a select few points of the new old Tuckerism that Tucker and the Hillaryites obviously want Ravitch readers to know. She clips them directly from Tucker's ...
http://www.schoolsmatter.info/

Schools Matter: Breaking News: Diane Ravitch Has ...
Mar 11, 2014
Acting as Randi Weingarten's unofficial press agent, Diane Ravitch faithfully catalogs Randi's continued bobbing and weaving to preserve her standing with the billionaires who made her, while maintaining her job as ...
http://www.schoolsmatter.info/

Schools Matter: Ravitch Announces Randi's "Decoupling" of ...
Jan 12, 2014
Ravitch Announces Randi's "Decoupling" of Common Core from VAM. With light diminishing between Diane Ravitch and Randi Weingarten's positions, Dr. Ravitch posted this this morning. My comment at her blog follows.
http://www.schoolsmatter.info/

Schools Matter: When Will Ravitch Stop Enabling ...
Mar 18, 2014
Sadly, Diane Ravitch has chosen to continue shielding Randi from the truth of her addiction to the poison being pushed by the corporate education kingpins. In a recent interview with Salon, reprinted today at Alternet, Ravitch ...
http://www.schoolsmatter.info/

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