Dear Readers,
Thank you for your instant feedback. Some readers say they like having my blogs early in the morning, before they leave for work. A few said they liked the spacing. Some said do what works for you. What resonated with me was my preference for plain vanilla. Post them as you write them. Post them when you want. If readers don’t have the patience to read whatever I send out, that’s their choice.
The one thing I want to emphasize to those who enjoy this blog is that you should take the time to read some of the earliest posts. I started blogging in late April, not so long ago. The blogs I wrote six weeks ago are as timely and as relevant today as they were then.
I have been fortunate to have the help of two readers who saw that I was not good with the technology. I depended on the kindness of strangers, who helped organize the content with categories and who helped make the blog user-friendly and showed me some of the basics.
My only rule was: no advertising; no glitz; no graphics; just the words, just the ideas, just the direct communication between me and you.
I hope it works for you. It works for me.
Together we will survive these days of madness in American education. We will not let them destroy the teaching profession and privatize our public schools.
And I will post in the mornings.
Diane
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Thank you for your daily encouragement that we can survive this together. At times it feels as though we are alone, out here in the wilderness, trying to remain sane and do what is right for children in the midst of an insane world.
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Here’s what works for me: when there are several of Diane’s blog posts, set the email browser so the most recent e-mails are at the end of the list, not the beginning. That way it’s easy to read the older ones first, and when I hit “delete” after reading a one, the next one appears right away on the screen. Reset so most recent e-mails are at the top of the list when done.
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I confess that I use the “Follow” subscription option to be notified by email that a post has happened. It won’t matter to me whether you submit one, six or a dozen a day, morning, noon or night.
Thank you for writing.
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I am just so happy you have a daily blog and your posts are linked to so many other sites. . And I really believe the media is watching this as well as so-called “reformers”.
BRING IT ON!!!
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I follow through a blog reader (bloglovin) and click on the earliest post and then work my way forward. I don’t care how you schedule posts just as long as you keep writing about these critical issues in education. I have been linking many of your posts to my Facebook page as well as passing them along to friends, family, etc. Not only is it important that you are calling attention to the attacks on public education, but others need to spread the word as well.
Thank you for all of the important work you do.
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Whenever you find the time to talk with us is fine by me. Whatever strikes your fancy to share with us, is also fine by me. I share so many of them not only on my wall but others as well. Personally, I don’t know how you do it all. Sure am glad you do find the time!
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Just echoing the others who say – Thank you for this blog, as well as for all your other work. I’ve been assigning your “Life and Death of the Great American School System” to students in my college critical thinking class, and am delighted to see you here posting when and as you can.
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Thank you for posting your blog… it is really nice.
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I’m so happy I found your blog! Teaching has become a very lonely position. Our voice is not heard over the roar of Common Core Standards and teacher evaluations! When assessments are given before curriculum has been aligned to what is being tested, something is terribly wrong. I have spent hours upon hours writing goals for my new evaluation, that time has been only surpassed by the hours taken to score assessments. And what gets the least of my time is effective and creative planning, grading and evaluation of authentic learning, collegial collboration, basically all that is good teaching. Teachers are drowning in this “reform” and it seems like no one hears our cries for help. I used to be proud to say I was a teacher. No more. I feel more and more like a robotic data producer, a puppet of flawed bureaucracy rather than an engaging, creative, passionate educator. We are suffocating under the burden of misplaced “reform” and our students will eventually feel the collateral damage. Where is Connecticut’s leadership? Will somebody please stop this madness? I need to get off now!
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