My editor at Knopf is one of the best-known figures in the publishing world.
Knopf is the most distinguished publisher in the U.S.
They will be publishing my new book in the fall.
It will explain everything you wanted to know about the corporate reform movement.
Here is the news.
The title is: Reign of Error.
The subtitle will knock your socks off.
I will release that later on.
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I hope Micheal Moore reads it and decides to make the ed reform movement the subject of his next documentary.
Where is Michael Moore in all of this? Where is his future documentary on education?
Diane, have you and Bruce Baker thought about contacting his production company? A major mainstream documentary should be made about the righting the wrongs of all of this corporate reform in education . . . at least exposing its ills. . .
Maybe it can have a catchy title, like “Arne and Me”.
I am in the process of contacting Michael, but I am figuring he will respond a lot sooner to you, as you and Bruce are in the public eye!
Why not use your celebrity to persuade him to make a film, much like Oprah used hers to promote Zuckenberg’s largesse to the Schools in the City of Newark, New Jersey? Only, unlike the billionaire-in-a-bubble Oprah, who I believe has never featured you on her network or show (when she still had it), you’d be utilizing the mainstream media to promote public trusts instead of private, arbitrary donations.
What do you think?
yes definitely, a Michael Moore exposé movie would be some much needed PR to help expose the de-formers
I actually met Michael Moore at a Leonard Cohen concert in Brooklyn a month ago. I introduced myself. We had a five-minute talk. I have my fingers crossed. He is interested. Lets all send him tweets. Write him. Call him.
I just sent Mr Moore a link to this blog and a plea to look into the hoax!
(Yep, it did knock my socks off…way to call it out!)
Perhaps if many of us write, tweet, FB him?
Also love the E. Morris idea! Please try to get him interested, too!
Diane et al,
I am SO on it! I am psyched . . .
I will do everything I can to get this talented auteur to make the film. My wife’s cousin is Errol Morris, who made the Oscar winning “The Fog of War”, and Errol’s politics are really great. I was thinking of contacting him as well, but I think Michael’s films are far more mainstream. He is the premier documentarian for the average, everyday person. He is one of the great film media voices of the 99%. . . .
Please do contact Mr Morris!
BTW, let us all know where you’ll be doing a book signing. .. please! I can’t wait to read it. Catchy and clever title!
Congratualtions on its release, Diane. Students majoring in education now are required to read your last book in so many universities. How fantastic is that! The pen is mightier. . . .
Yes, please give us some book tour dates ASAP.
I love the pun, but I’m afraid it’s not terribly accurate. Errors can be corrected. I’m afraid this has all been intentional and I doubt we’ll see any corrections any time soon – at least until we hit rock bottom.
BTW, I should add, I plan to buy it anyway at the first available opportunity – let us know when it’s available for pre-order.
Congratulations!
Unless it refers to the error inherent in any statistical model, especially VAM. In which case, those errors really do reign these days.
VAM is certainly riddled with errors. But the fact that it is the evaluation method of choice for the rheephormers is no error.
Congratulations, Diane! I am so looking forward to reading this.
Let us know about any book signings and publicity!! Can’t wait to read it!
I can’t wait! Your last book changed my life!
Congratulations! The title is wonderful. As my nephew would say- Kicking butt & taking names.
Can’t wait to read it!
Thank you for writing such a book! So needed!
We ought to have a contest to see who can guess closest to the subtitle and they get I don’t know a signed copy.
How Politicians & Their Corporate Sponsors Ignore Poverty and Use Junk Science & the Media to Dismantle and Privatize Public Education
You don’t have to guess the subtitle. The book is available for pre-order on Barnes & Noble’s website and others. Maybe we can set a pre-order record.
Just pre-ordered.
Did you use amazon or B&N? Not sure I want to support amazon anymore? Here is the link…haven’t decided yet:
How the royalty of reform are dumber than cows, and the really expensive studies that must mean it’s science.
RHEEformers don’t conduct studies; they publish white papers and treat them as fact.
Unwise ALEC
“How the Billionaire Boys Club failed to listen to me and destroyed American civilization”? Just kidding — Congratulations!
Thanks, Ken.
I think the billionaires hear me. And they hear three million plus educators too.
Pathetic Ken….something tells me you don’t see and hear kids everyday.
In the USA those who think they know it all are the furthest removed from children, teaching and learning. How sad for our country.
Diane, keep us informed of a pre-order date and a book tour schedule.
“The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger for America’s Public Schools”
Oh man, I wish I had an extra pair of socks in the office!
What does that mean?
Diane promised it would knock them off. I should have taken that warning more seriously!
It is hard to tell from words alone, but I can’t tell if you are trying to be funny or condescending.
This is quite the marketing campaign.
Her readers here would like to know. Are you being funny or mean?
I am not getting it…sorry.
Did you say the same thing about the lady who regularly submits posts on this blog pushing her book about how stupid Americans are?
Clever title. 🙂
Love it.
Looking forward to reading it.
Reign of Error is on fire!!! And I can’t wait to read it. I would love to be able to write a blurb for it.From my Android phone on T-Mobile. The first nationwide 4G network.
Congratulations, Diane. I can’t wait to read it, as well. I’m so grateful for you and this blog. You have helped my healing.
And please let us know about the book tour.
Great title!
Also, please let us know about the book tour!
Go get ’em!
Totally appropriate title to describe what is happening. I look forward to reading it.
this book will be another vade mecum for me!
I don’t know. I think it would be “collaborative” of us (and fun) to create a contest to guess the subtitle! (kidding!) Although I’m in the mood today to jot down a few beauties. I’ll be bald at the end of this particular legislative session in FL! As you can see, I’m already punchy.
P.S. I forgot to say, I love the title. It is perfectly brilliant. I remember thunderous applause in an audience of many thousand in July when you inserted “Reign of Error” into your speech. It resonates with everyone. Congratulations again, Diane.
We already have one clue. The subtitle has to do with a hoax…
Reminds me of Barbara Tuchman’s brilliant “March of Folly,” which I often turn to when thinking about ed reform politics. Congrats, Diane!
$17.09 at B & N:
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/reign-of-error-diane-ravitch/1114590179?ean=9780385350884
Pre-ordered. Can’t wait until September…
$18.45 at Amazon:
Perfect title. On the ground (for teachers and principals), the reign of error translates into a reign of terror.
Congratulations Diane. I love the title and it’s being released not a moment too soon.
I will FB Michael Moore as well.
I recognize many of the posters above and second their motion to pre-order now!
And I resurrect my suggestion [prompted by other comments] of 1-18-13 made in response to Diane’s blog posting “My Good News.” It follows below in abbreviated form.
For all the posters and viewers of this website: How can we thank Diane? Easy. She has no billionaire backers to buy up hundreds of thousands of copies of her forthcoming book [to distribute free to unwilling readers] and land her on the bestseller list.
We can do it. This blog gets a huge number of views. So buy a copy for yourself and … buy one for another willing reader or two. The majority of posters here … are not very interested in the ‘show and tell’ of having it in people’s hands: we want people to read the book, think about it, talk about it with other people, use it to help galvanize action to defeat the separate and unequal educational schemes of the charterites/privatizers. Agree with it, disagree with it, but continue the discussion of how to achieve a “better education for all.”
I plan to buy a copy for myself and two others. How about y’all go with this one plus two plan? [End of excerpt]
I have a feeling there will be a lot of takers!
🙂
For all my friends spending Father’s Day weekend writing their research papers, Diane Ravitch has spent her life researching… and I love the name of her new book! She says it all. Reign of Error.
Einstein said, “A question that sometimes drives me hazy: Am I or are the others crazy?” Diane lets us know that it is definitely the others. Her research is impeccable, and Arne Duncan, David Coleman, Michelle Rhee, Chancellor Merryl Tisch, and Commissioner King should be really ashamed of themselves for feeding public education to the privitazation, Pearson-esque wolves.
I just bought: ‘Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America’s Public Schools’ by Diane Ravitch
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From the former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education, “whistleblower extraordinaire” (The Wall Street Journal), one of the foremost authorities on education and the history of education in the United States, author of the best-selling The Death and Life of the Great American School System; The Language Police (“Impassioned . . . Fiercely argued . . . Every bit as alarming as it is illuminating” –The New York….
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