Good news!
This blog began on April 24, 2012.
Today, September 18, it passed the one million page view mark.
That’s a lot of people across America and in other countries joining our discussion of better education for all.
I don’t want merit pay or a bonus.
I am grateful that readers here and on every continent are listening, speaking, thinking, contributing and sharing ideas about how to improve education.
Thank you!
Diane
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Thank you, Diane!
You should have been taking data on a regular basis, so we could graph the growth. Then, we could decide on absolutely no research support if you deserve a carrot or the stick!
And thank you. Your page gives teachers a place to vent, to comment, and to learn. Teachers have always been family and families need to be able to connect with each other.
And it means that people have learned some important piece of information 1 million times.
You are proving, yet again, that one person can make a difference…
And the information you are spreading showing that Margaret Mead was also right about what a small group can do when working together.
Ms. Ravitch,
There are many “factions” fighting ed deform: Save Our Schools, Parents Across America, Against vouchers, No more charters, and no offense to all the others I have missed, but there are many others.
1 million hits, Ms. Ravitch! Congratulations. And perhaps then, along with that, a duty to work to unite us all.
Please consider.
Sincerely,
A Huntington Teacher
If we look at the difference between the million hits and the predicted number of hits, I’m sure that your have achieved a high VAM score. 😉
Yes!
Diane Ravitch
Thank you Diane for this wonderful blog!!
Tully amazing. Thanks for the leadership and boundless energy devoted to the cause of educational excellence and equity. Far more than a blog, your site has become a forum to collectively forge the indispensable common vocabulary and analysis necessary to build a new democratic vision of public education.
Awesome! Thank you!
Dr. Ravitch, these simple words do not seem enough, but here they are…Thank you for all you do. It matters!
I am here from New Zealand. My country came 7th in reading and science (duking it out with Canada) and 13th in maths in the latest PISA. This is despite having high poverty levels and our k-12 system costing way less per pupil then in America – you’d think we must be doing something right. Yet the policies the government are pushing/have introduced are – low regulation charter schools, ranking schools to find failures, teacher accountability through testing and national standards. One of our universities/foundations is trying to start up a TFA program and another university/foundation has bought over Dr Mike Feinberg to talk about KIPP in a “public meeting”.
The only reasons that I can think they are going anywhere near this stuff is that they are blinded by ideaology, they are so arrogant that they think they know better than research or that money is trickling here from the US for these initiatives.
It’s all very depressing.
GERM the Global Education Reform Movement. Conservatives the world over have found a new whipping boy. Its for the kids. My question is, when they ruin the advancements made in education over the last 50 years, will that be teacher’s fault too?
Congrats!!! At this rate you will be reaching a few million by the new year!!!
Thank you for making a difference.
Though I generally hold to a “hits don’t mean much” worldview, I recognize this as an exception.
All worldviews need exceptions.
Congratulations.
Congratulations, Diane! And thank you for your integrity.
Keep it up. This blog has helped light my fire as an advocate for progressive education reform. I taught preschool last year at a daycare and am headed back to grad school to allow me to teach in the public schools. We need more voices speaking out.
Thanks Diane. I am a teacher in Australia and your blog has been a real warning. We are heading to a national curriculum and the first professional development was run by Pearsons. There are so many things I am seeing that reflect what is happening in the US, such as “independent” schools that seem to be modeled on charter schools. Also our NAPLAN testing that is being used to shame schools.
And thank you!
Great news, Diane. Thanks for the hard work. We need your site very much.
You have given us a voice. Thanks for helping me find my own.
Congrats on a million page views! Unfortunately, this blog is addictive.
A healthy addiction!
Diane Ravitch
I think that 800,223 were me. I have had to join a support group for my Diane Ravitch Blog addiction. This is one addiction I don’t want to fight. As for the one to chocolate……
This is a very healthy addiction
Diane
Indeed it is, Diane. No support group needed. The readers of this blog are the support group. Congrats!
Absolutely, and as Kathy1 pointed out this IS our support group!
As my students say, “You Rock!”
No calories either, although sometimes it may not be good for my blood pressure. It stimulates the mind though. Thank You Dr. Ravitch.
Thank you for this blog- it has been a beacon of hope and a great read to boot.
Thank you for giving us a forum and for helping us to realize that we are not the insane ones in the asylum. And, yes, your blog is very addictive!
Wonderful ! This is great news for all the teachers who need to feel supported in the middle of the bipartisan mess impacting their lives.
You really do “ROCK”
Thanks Dr. D 🙂
Thank you Diane. I am so appreciative for the wisdom you’ve shared.
Awesome! 🙂
I applaud Diane for not only taking us along with her on a journey of discovery but for relentlessly doing the indispensable work of trying to draw in as many others as possible in a discussion of how to make a “better education for all” a reality.
On the internet it is easy enough to trumpet one’s own horn and hog all the attention for oneself. While this blog bears her imprint, please allow me to say in a most heartfelt fashion: many thanks to Diane for making her blog “our” blog, where we can learn from, and teach, each other.
While it is an effective way to conduct a discussion it’s not the result of happenstance. It takes some courage and wisdom to continue to follow that path even when there are [sometimes major] bumps along the way. It is definitely the road less traveled. And it does, indeed, make all the difference.
Thank you. When I started the blog, I had no idea how it would evolve. I started writing what was on my mind and getting fascinating responses. I soon realized that readers had better ideas than I did or had important insights that I wanted to share. As the blog evolved, it became a unique forum, one different from my original intention and far better. I learn every day.
Diane
This is truth.
After reading your comment, I was ashamed I didn’t see this blog for what is truthfully is earlier, and now completely humbled by it.
Moving forward, I’m also more hopeful than ever.
Thank you for sharing.
Don’t thank us. No–thank YOU!!! YOU are a hero. I can’t wait to read your new book!
Yay! Thank you Diane for being so hugely instrumental in subjecting the destructive and long accepted national narrative about our schools and teachers to critical scrutiny.
Thank you for giving voice to so many teachers whose direct testimony about the condition of childhood in this nation and the conditions of teaching in this nation are routinely dismissed as excuse-making, if acknowledged at all.
There is renewed hope and I’m glad!
You’d have a lot more hits if I wouldn’t leave the site on all day!!!
Holy cow!!! Awesome! You’re how I start my day, Diane, aka She Who Never Sleeps. :). Thank you for the impossible amount of writing you do. I think it’s more than just not sleeping. You MUST have some super powers as well!