tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14707730.post8098877048613816884..comments2024-02-24T19:49:45.687-05:00Comments on Schools Matter: When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first timeJames Hornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04462754705431590571noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14707730.post-48199723472860864262017-09-20T21:42:38.633-04:002017-09-20T21:42:38.633-04:00Diane Ravitch's and Mercedes Schneider have bo...Diane Ravitch's and Mercedes Schneider have boycotted all of my comments. When I went up against the two of them for supporting ESSA, I knew that I would be boycotted-so goes for protecting teachers and children. As we all know ESSA was a trap for kids, teachers, and schools. The datamining has continued at hyper speed. The social, emotional, and behavioral standards and interventions have been legislated into law. Where were Diane and Mercedes....yapping it up to Lamar Alexander and his trap for the countries education system. They are both traitors to true education. Please join Child Abuse in the Classroom, A Legal Challenge to ESSA. A parent revolt is at hand. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17399962702762913912noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14707730.post-26394158347304639752017-09-20T12:42:38.530-04:002017-09-20T12:42:38.530-04:00Diane Ravitch has always doggedly fought to gain t...Diane Ravitch has always doggedly fought to gain the intellectual respect that she has never deserved. Her best works are Hayek-inspired middle brow histories of schooling, a subject that Diane knows only from the indirect exposure of writing books about schools--and from being Lamar Alexander's research flunky at the U. S. Dept. of Ed in the early 90s.<br /><br />Ravitch wants to be major player, and her highly-leveraged NCLB conversion in 2009 has helped earn that for her. But after two best sellers that whitewashed her own role in the history of corporate ed reform, and after hundreds of speeches that are craftily designed to pat teachers on the head and keep them within the political confines of the corporate union agenda, Diane's politics and policy prescriptions have changed little from the early days when she was hawking articles to the neoconservative Commentary magazine.<br /><br />Diane remains supportive of standardized testing, while claiming opposition to its "overuse." She remains supportive of dehumanizing corporate charter schools, while opposing only those without tax exempt status. She remains in favor of national standards, even though she was arm-twisted in acceding to the fact that the Common Core was a trainwreck. And she remains a supporter of Lamar Alexander's segregated charter stimulus legislation known as ESSA, even though she posts on her blog enough commentaries by others to provide an impression that she might believe otherwise.<br /><br />Ravitch is dodgy and deceptive, and she is quick to accuse anyone with clear principles of being a purist. She and her corporate union allies (and their many anti-reformy shills) are the greatest stumbling blocks to the emergence of a legitimate resistance movement to corporate education. Perhaps when Diane gets her own MacArthur Genius Award to match the one already owned by former foe, Deb Meier, then Ravitch might find contentment and move off center stage. If Alison McDowell keeps turning over rocks, we may have clear evidence that Diane has ingratiated herself enough to have finally earned one.James Hornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04462754705431590571noreply@blogger.com