Here is the link to the story about the Obama plan to cut costs and measure everything for value-added in higher education.
I forgot to add it because I was waiting in the doctor’s office for a check up and they called me in just when I was supposed to post the link.
Here is my dirty little secret.
I blog everywhere. It drives my friends and family crazy. I blog in taxis. I blog in elevators. I blog in the car and on the bus. I blog in airports. I blog early and I blog late. I blog whenever I have a free minute because you guys–you readers–send me so many great, horrible, wonderful, insightful, moving, important stories about what is happening in your state or district or school.
So forgive my occasional oversight. If you don’t see a link, let me know and I will fix it.
No excuses. I need your help. And I always get it.
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I hate to burst your bubble, Diane, but you don’t keep this secret very well. 😉
I had the same reaction. How else to explain the wonderful, awesome, overwhelming, intimidating, thrilling, intellectually challenging, amazing volume of posts on this blog. 🙂
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I agree. I notice the hours you post sometimes and you are up in the middle of the night! A million thanks for what you do. Your voice keeps us strong!
We’re very happy you do this, Diane, and we thank you even if your friends don’t.
Apparently I’m already at my limit of free NYT stories for the month. Quelle domage. Given the editorial cess pool they’ve fallen into, I’m not so sure that’s a bad thing.
Here’s my secret: If you use Google Chrome, you can add an extension called NY Times paywall buster.
Clear out your cookies. Search for the nytimes ones, and presto – you’re back at the start.
Use incognito mode in chrome, or private browsing in firefox, or just use Tor.
Diane, how many devices do you own that you can blog so frequently?
She mentioned using an iPad previously. I’d be interested in learning how one can readily get online in so many different locations. Is NYC just one huge hot spot or is something else needed to access the Internet everywhere?
Dianne
You are wonderful. Even more so now that I envision you emphatically carrying on the blogging wherever you may be.
Thank you
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Your blogs continue to be excellent. It’s all impressive and I continue to share information with everyone. Whenever I have a free moment I go to your blog. What is really something is the humor behind some of the blogs. You make me smile and laugh at some of your writing. This is another example. The visual of Diane Ravitch bloging in a taxi is funny, however, I hope you make time to eat, sleep, relax and hang out. I know you don’t enjoy knitting 😉 I still wonder how you do so much in a day…now you just told me. Please take care of yourself.
She told us before that some messages are scheduled to be posted, too, so it’s not all done in real time and that would enable her to spend more time doing other things as well.
Thanks so much for posting this story so quickly, Diane! I knew I could count on you for that. However, I had no idea about the different kinds of environments where you post from, so thank you for taking us along with you everywhere!!!
Thank you, thank you. You are a light in the dark, that ever grows brighter!
Thank you 🙂
Your spouse!!!
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Hip hip hooray for Diane’s blogging habit!
I love your blog and promote it every chance I get Diane! Where are you speaking and when in New York City?
Like I said before, we are not waiting for superman because we already have something so much better-SUPERWOMAN! My secret, I am addicted to your blog. I read it all day long. I share it with everyone I know. I talk about it with anyone who is willing to listen. We need to be the voices for our students because they are worthy of our efforts.
Diane,
You are my inspiration and role model for what an informed activist should be.
There arr several times where I come across something of importance that I’d like you to see, particularly if it could be good for your blog. However I don’t have the email address you use for such submissions.
If you could provide your readers—or perhaps, just your trusted readers—with an email address for article links, tips, “whistle blowing” items or other important news and views, that would be especially helpful.
(If you would rather just send it privately to each interested, trusted individual, that could work too: if you could send that email address to me at mrktjobs@gmail.com I woul greatly appreciate it.
Also, it’s good to hear that you’re making time for regular medical checkups. 🙂 We need you in the years ahead, more than ever!
Go to dianeravitch.com to contact her.
Best Blog going because of it! Thank you. As a side note how do we send something to you?
A big thank you to your family for sharing you with us!
Thank you for your tireless efforts in being inclusive in all issues regarding public schools and politics. It’s working – the public is getting wise!
I don’t know who created this, but I challenge administrators to include this video to start the school year.
Perhaps it came from Mr. Teachbad? (aka Peter Gwynn, former D.C. teacher). And–he’s a FORMER teacher BECAUSE he’s Mr. Teachbad (the wonderfully creative & witty blogger, author of “Fake Education News” {although his F.E.N. is becoming more like reality today})–it appears he was fired due to his blogging.
But–I digress–you must Google his blog and search for his classic F.E.N.–“Principal Seeks to Replace Entire Student Body.” Everyone in my special education teachers’ study group absolutely roared with laughter upon reading it–you’ll all enjoy it, too!
This “measuring” has got so out of hand – especially because it suddenly becomes a power/control tool in the hands of the “measurer”. I notice as I walk around NYC that many restaurants have “grades” displayed prominently in their windows. It reminds me of Bloomberg giving grades to NYC schools. Ironic but very transparent that the title one schools with struggling students (circa year 2008) were getting “A”‘s if their students made the tiniest improvements through all the top down “corporate ed directives” while the top schools which did not follow all the dictates of top-down “corporate ed reform” were getting “C”‘s and worse because their students’ s “proficiency” rates as measured by tests went from 96 percent proficiency to 95 proficiency. The “A” labelled schools would go from 23 percent proficency to 27 percent profiency to achieve that “A”. It basically was a means of insuring that the testing climate lived on. So NO .. Obama’s attempt to MEASURE universities is pure bull. We are becoming a nation of measure and rank everything … like the phrenologists of yesteryear.. it leads to very skewed results and the data out is ONLY AS GOOD AS THE DATA IN. What is driving our president to act in such a way????
Remember that Psychometrics (in the form of educational standards and standardized testing) = Phrenology = Eugenics = Blood Letting of times gone by.
…and such fine blogging it is…thank you so much for all your do for this somewhat weary, but not yet beaten, teaching world your readers live in! Vive la résistance!
There aren’t enough “thank yous” that can be said to you, Diane. Bless you, & hope your doctor’s results find you in the pink!
Oh, & Fred Klonsky does the same–blogs all over–even during meetings (I’ve seen him!) & vacations (vacation picture posted on blog of Fred blogging!)
Education bloggers & retired teachers never rest. My 91-year-old mother would say,
“There’s no rest for the wicked!”
But I say, “There’s no rest for the good, as they have to be ever vigilant to defend us all against the wicked!”
Looking forward to seeing/hearing you speak in Chicago, Diane!
Thanks so much for all you do, Diane. I hope it makes you feel good to know that so many people support your efforts, just as I know I’m not the only one here who is eternally grateful to you for taking on the frontal assault. You’re doing a great job and I feel that we may soon see some meaningful change in policies and practices. I’m looking forward to the book release!