Diane Ravitch Responds

Education historian/activist Diane Ravitch is taking the New York Post, claiming the paper doesn’t appreciate parents criticism of public schools. Which sort of mirrors parent’s complaints about Joel Klein.

In an item she posted at 6 a.m., Ravitch wrote:

Did the editorial writers of the New York Post read the latest Qunnipiac poll? Read More

The Education of Mike Bloomberg

Mike has never been much of an ideas guy. Lots of practicality, effective belt-tightening, technological wizardry, but very little ideology from the top, though some of his deputies certainly have strong ideas.

In the Wall Street Journal today, Diane Ravitch, the educational historian and official in the first Bush administration, writes that Read More