Faithful readers of the blog may recall that I started a new book last June.
I am pleased to announce that it will be published next fall by Knopf, the finest publishing house in the United States.
The title is under wraps for now.
If you have been reading the blog, you know what it’s about.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
By next fall do you mean this fall?
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I mean the fall of 2013, either September or October 2013.
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Congrats. I am sure it will cause a media stir and you will be booked by all the talk shows 🙂
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First good news of 2013! Thanks, Diane.
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Looking forward to it.
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I can’t wait that long….are you allowed to reveal snippets? I am so excited….let us know your book tour dates as soon as they are set (: !
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Woderful news. All the best to you this year.
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Diane — Congratulations!! I can’t wait to purchase a copy!!
Marge
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Looking forward to it.
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Congratulations!!! Can’t wait. I wish you and your family a very Happy, Healthy and Peaceful New Year.
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Thank you for writing. I look forward to purchasing a copy for myself, and another for my father — who was very dismissive of my assertions about the real forces behind school reform a decade ago, and continues to be so in the face of mounting evidence that I was right.
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Congratulations, can’t wait to read!! In the meantime I’ll look for your other ones!!
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Congratulations on the news, Diane. Thank you for your voice in and constancy toward the fight to defend the future of our country’s students.
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Congrats and Happy New Year!
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That truly is wonderful news. I hope that by the time the book is published and you go out on a book tour, you are able to say, “It has been a difficult time for public education, but we are well on our way to true reform that is respectful of students and teachers. The tide has TURNED!”
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Congrats! Let us know when it’s available for pre-order on Amazon.
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Congratulations! I can’t wait to read it. Happy New Year and thank you for all you do for us!
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Sweet! Congratulations and Happy New Year! Thanks for fighting the good fight!
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I’m looking forward to reading it!
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Great! Can’t wait!
Thanks for everything you do.
Peg 🙂
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Looking forward to ordering it through my local Barnes & Noble.
And to recommending others buy it as well.
For those of us who oppose what has increasingly become the status quo agenda of charterization, privatization, deprofessionalization of teaching, eduproduct over education, and obedience over critical thinking, your book will be the gift that keeps on giving.
Just one modest request: please don’t forget this blog still needs your attention!
🙂
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Congrats! Can’t wait to read it. I alreadybought a bookmark just for it.
Happy New Year!
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Your book will become another bestseller because we’ll all go out and buy it!
A particularly vicious lie circulated by the “reformers” – that unions protect child sex abusers- will be exposed in 2013. When the Miramonte scandal and all the attendant lawsuits are adjudicated, the public will learn that this heinous crime against little children occurred because administrators:
hired the suspects without properly checking their backgrounds;
neglected to report suspected abuse to outside authorities, as required by law;
failed to report these individuals to the Department of Teacher Credentialing, as required by law. even after their arrests;
failed to supervise these people in any way; allowed them to teach behind locked doors where no one knew what they were doing;
gave the suspects “satisfactory” evaluations, after the most cursory classroom visits;
ignored complaints made by children, parents and teachers;
transferred these individuals from school to school and district to district, even after several serious complaints.
In short, the public will find that the scandal at Miramonte was another Penn State, but at the elementary level, with administrators trying to “handle” it themselves, instead of reporting it to authorities.
Hopefully the public will also learn that the unions try to protect the many innocent teachers, who are falsely accused each year. Likely child abusers come under the jurisdiction of the police and judicial systems and not the administration of a school district.
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Linda, you have hit on an uncomfortable subject but one that has been forced on all of us who value a “better education for all.”
Unfortunately I am well aware through personal experience that you have hit on a reality that is too often twisted by the edubullies: teachers and aides and other support staff do NOT run schools—administrators do. And with the sincerest bow of respect to every administrator who does her/his job honorably and well, I know from firsthand experience that the best defense a child sex abuser in school has is for that person to ingratiate himself/herself with an incompetent administrator who should never have been put in the position of guiding, evaluating, managing and PROTECTING others.
Again, I do not want anyone to construe the above as maligning the many fine individuals in administrative positions who have been, and are, putting themselves at risk to “do the right thing.” That includes some courageous individuals who have posted on this very blog.
But difficult truths need to be spoken. Silence is consent.
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Yes, of course, the vast majority of administrators, like teachers, are upstanding people who do the right thing. But when these abuses occur and are not reported, it’s almost always because of administrative cover-up. It’s very similar to child abuse cases in the Scouts, the church and Penn State.
Thanks for making the point that most administrators are honorable people. In my above comment, I was thinking mainly of John Deasy of Los Angeles Unified, who has shamefully tried to place the blame for Miramonte on “the unions” but a judge has already allowed lawsuits to proceed on the basis of much evidence of neglect on the part of administration.
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If you’re doing a book tour, please consider coming to DC. The belly of the beast, so to speak.
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I will be there (DC) for sure.
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Wonderful news, Diane. We need it!!
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Congratulations!
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Put me down for (at least) one copy!
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Great News!
Congratulations, I know we are all looking forward to the read.
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I will be looking forward to your book, which I will purchase in hardcover, not in Kindle.
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Diane….could you use some of your influence to bring up the issue of decreasing time for recess at elem schools? http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2012/12/28/recess-pediatricians-policy-statement/1796547/
there are no state dept of eds pushing for recess to be included in “time on learning”
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