Dear Friends,
One of the readers of this blog told me that I should space the entries. Typically, my cat wakes me at 5 am and I start writing and posting, sometimes four or five blogs. The reader said that his tendency was to read the last one first, missing some of the earlier ones. He suggested that I time them to appear every hour or two hours.
So today I am initiating that experiment. I am learning as I go. I just learned how to time the publication of blogs.
As some of you may have noticed, it took a while for me to figure out how to embed links to articles. Eventually I learned that too.
Please let me know whether you like the idea of spacing the blogs or prefer that I send them out, as I have been doing, in the early morning.
Diane
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Actually I quite like having a reason to check back to see what other things you have posted through out the day so I vote for the status quo.
Diane, I am fine with you posting as you complete entries. I try and read them in the order you post, no matter what time of day I have time to catch up with your writing. With apologies to Walt Whitman, I would ask you to write “in the gush, the throb, the flood, of the moment.”
First, I love your blog! Thank you. Second, I love the early morning blogs. They fire up my day.
Thank you! And thank my cat, who jumps on me at 5 am without fail to wake me to feed him. I then get two uninterrupted hours to write new blogs and to post blogs I wrote the night before and saved. Sometimes I worry that I write too much. I also worry because when I start traveling again in the fall, I won’t be able to keep up the pace. And also there is that fear that time will run out for me. So I blog on.
I agree with concerned citizen, I have your blog set to an alert so everytime you post I get a notice on my phone. I love it because I cannot wait to read what you have written. You writings give me hope, thanks!
I like them all in the morning. I read them before I start my work day. I’d rather not have more distractions coming at me all day. Not that I object if something sometimes gets posted later, but morning works best for me.
You are a very insightful and intelligent person. Every time you write, we all get smarter. Please don’t hold back your thoughts because someone thinks you post too much. Naturally it’s the teachers who are left in the dark on the major issues. You bring those issues to light for us. You are our person “in the know”. It’s your perspectives that I use quite often when discussing education concerns to other teachers and parents at my school.
Post entries however is most convenient for you…
I love reading your blogs, but to be honest they do feel like a little too much. Typically, bloggers post one a day. I am surprised by how many you send out. I’d even prefer a digesty kind of thing — most of the same info, one long blog.
I agree with tpaleo. Why would we want to inhibit your work with unnecessary external constraints? When you feel the urge and you want to write don’t wait for 3rd period when you have Language Arts for 50 minutes. Hopefully you get my intended humor here. I would say if you want to try it out the way the reader suggested, go for it. If you think it is resulting in what you see as an improvement to your work, then go with it. Either way keep up the good work. Eventually I find time to read them all. Sometimes I read the first one first by looking at the time they were posted. Sometimes I decide by headlines, and sometimes I read the last one first as it creates kind of a natural inquiry state of mind as I start to have questions which give me a purpose to seek out the answers by reading the previous blogs. Whatever you do please keep them coming one day or another.
I vote to keep things as they are. I was but a young pup when I learned how to sort and read my email in order of the time and date it arrived, and I’d be happy to teach others this fundamental skill if need be.
Thank you Diane for providing this avenue for feedback and all of the thought provoking posts you create. Due to my schedule, I read your blog via an RSS feed in the morning and appreciate your early morning submissions as I have less time to be a thorough reader later in the day. Therefore, I also support the status quo and suggest the counter point of delaying posts may harm their timeliness.
I am a faithful reader of your blog. You are amazing and I wouldn’t dare suggest that you change anything. Do what you want! It’s a wonder you haven’t worn the letters right off the keyboard. And just like you, I’m an early riser. I like to start my day by reading your blog. Thank you so much for all that you say, do and write.
Please post as you have in the past. It’s easy enough to find the order you entered the posts.
This is your blog, not that reader’s blog. Post them when YOU want to.
I, too, prefer to read them in order. I don’t always get to read them the day you post them. But there are easy fixes for this. I use an RSS reader tht downloads all blogs I read, and I have it display your posts in the order you posted them.
So, post the way you want. It is up to your readers to use the tools available to read the posts the way that they want.
Oh my goodness never worry that you write too much – write when you can and when you want to – as a reader I can easily click the arrow to go forward/back to see what I have missed. Thank you Diane!
I have read from the most prolific writers (Stephen King wrote a book, “On Writing” on this) that writers should block in uninterrupted time to write, write, write (King didn’t bother to factor little furry animals). I assume you have other things to attend to after the a.m., so I am grateful to get the jolt in the morning. The truth is, I see you as my free professor, so I expect you to be two or three steps ahead of me. I expect to need to keep up with you. Your posts are many times anachronistic, so I do not see the need in spacing. I appreciate the democratic nature of this post, but can you imagine accommodating all of our peccadillos? So, like, what seems like the majority of respondents are saying, in the vernacular of my students, “Do you.”
I prefer you to do what is comfortable for you. This is your blog and as a rather recent retiree and reader, I don’t sit at the computer all day long so spacing out does nothing for me. Write whenever the muse or politicians strike you.
I love all of your writing. After 40 years of teaching, and with three of my children in the middle of their teaching careers, you give us validation. It saddens me to see what the
” Billionaire Boys Club” is doing to the careers and the morale of our public school teachers..
Thank you for sharing your experience and knowledge. It is very unusual to have a person of your stature share so much so freely.This site is especially captivating because of the personal things you have shared as well as your professional expertise.
Since I am a “night owl” though, I am glad the I don’t live with your little “early bird” cat.
Write on… all you want. what you want to say, and when it is converient for you.
A grateful “FAN”