My new book will be officially published on September 17.
It is titled Reign of Error: The Hoax of the
Privatization Movement and the Danger to America’s Public
Schools. The publisher is Alfred A. Knopf, the nation’s
most distinguished publishing house. It will dispel many of the
myths and half-truths that have been repeated again and again in
recent years in an effort to discredit public education.
I will travel and lecture across the country. I won’t travel as much as I
would like to, as I must preserve my health and energy. I will
donate most of my speaking fees to the Network for Public
Education.
The schedule below is subject to change and I
will add more details later, but this is a heads-up about where I
will be speaking:
September 10:
Elmhurst, IL Elmhurst
College 7:00 pm
September 11
New York City Judson Memorial Church,
Washington Square 6 pm
September 16:
Pittsburgh:
Temple Sinai
5505 Forbes Avenue in Squirrel Hill neighborhood. 6 pm
September 17:
Philadelphia Free Library.
Montgomery Auditorium 6 pm.
September 23
New York City
The Century Foundation
1 Whitehall St., NYC
(Call for
reservation) 6 pm
September 25
Denver
North HIgh School
2960 N. Speer Blvd. 7 pm
September 26
Seattle
University of Washington
Kane Hall 130 7 pm
September 27
Sacramento
Memorial Auditorium
6:30 pm
September 28
Berkeley
Martin Luther King Middle School
1781 Rose Street.
7 pm
September 30
Stanford University
Cubberley Auditorium
6 pm
October 1
Los Angeles
Occidental College
Thorne Hall 7 pm
October 2
California State University
18111 Nordhoff St
Northridge,CA. 7 pm
October 5
Washington, DC
National Superintendents
Roundtable
Limited to registered superintendents
October 8
Congregation Beth Elohim,
274 Garfield Place
Park Slope, Brooklyn 7:30 pm
October 10
Northern Michigan University
Marquette, Michigan 7:30 pm
October 15
Kingston, RI.
University of Rhode Island,
School of Education 6:30 pm
October 17
Long Branch, New Jersey
New Jersey Principals and Supervisors Association (Limited to members)
9:30-10:30am
October 18
Washington, DC
Lunch event at Economic Policy Institute
Book signing at Politics and Prose bookstore
October 23:
Dartmouth College
Vermont School Boards Association
Alumni Hall 7:30 pm
November 1: Atlanta
United Way.
Georgia Tech
Hotel and Conference Center. 8 am.
November 4
Princeton, NJ
Community Forum, 4 pm
Princeton University Public Lecture 8 pm
November 13:
Chicago
First Free Church
5255 N. Ashland Avenue
7:30 pm
November 22
Richmond, VA.
Virginia Education Association
I intend to keep the schedule and details updated
on my website at dianeravitch.com.
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My gosh Diane, this is an ambitious schedule. Please take care of yourself along the way. Your advocacy for public education is so important but so is your health. Wishing you much success with the book. It is a definite read for every American who truly values what public education has done for our country. All the best.
Tis a shame, nowhere near the Show Me State.
Thank you, Joan, my family says the same.
That is an impressive and ambitious schedule! I hope you’ll return to Texas eventually!
I will be in Texas twice in 2014.
Hope to be in Austin around March 1, then meeting with superintendents in summer.
I’m interested in your Atlanta lecture on Nov. 1st. How does one sign up? Went to the Ga Tech conference center and saw no link for registering.
Alison, contact United Way of Atlanta.
Hi Alison..and anyone else in the ATL area.
I contacted the Atlanta United Way.
http://www.unitedwayatlanta.org/
I was told the event will be publicized more in the coming months through the United Way, but that ,yes, tickets will be available to the public. The talk will be in the AM on the campus of Ga Tech (otherwise known as the North Ave, trade school 😉 a little Georgia humor for you.)
Hope to see everyone there.
Won’t get to see you at Elmhurst… but might be able to catch the one on Nov 13… will any of these be recorded & youtubed? Always looking forward to hearing more from you!
I encourage sponsors to open their doors to the public. Many, maybe most, of my talks are on my website and YouTube.
It’s going to be at the First Free Church in Chicago, which is less than a mile from me!! Any chance that means folks can just show up and attendance will be free?
Sorry, Diane, I meant to say it’s going to be “held” at… I didn’t mean to refer to you as “It”
What a shame you won’t be in Orlando, the eleventh largest school district in the US. The privatizers are descending on Florida in droves. Tomorrow evening The Urban League will hold a meeting here with Students First and the other usual suspects. I and my cohorts will be there hopefully to debunk whatever they have to say.
Have the local universities in Orlando develop a proposal.
We’d love to see you in Florida, perhaps at the University of South Florida in Tampa (hint, hint). USF has a large, well-respected college of education, or did before teacher bashing became fashionable. In any event, happy trails to you.
I look forward to seeing you at Dartmouth College.
Atlanta!
Brooklyn!! Haven’t been this excited since going to see the Boss!
I know, right.
Diane, you are a total rock star!
Can’t thank you enough for youd unyielding support of public education. Please continue to lead the charge against the barbaric reformist assaults. There is large silent army waiting to be awakened.
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“I won’t travel as much as I would like to, as I must preserve my health and energy.” I am very happy to hear you say that, Diane. As it is, we are all astonished by your industry. The work that you are now doing is invaluable to the country, and no other could be doing it as well. Thank you.
Can’t wait to see you in Denver! You will be presenting in a school that just went through a very ugly and politically motivated co-location. Much love.
We are looking forward to seeing you next Wednesday Diane! Additionally our local, the Port Jefferson Station teachers Association, who represents the teachers in Dr. Rella’s Comsewogue School District out on Long Island, will be hosting a book club in our community using your new book. It will be open to any teachers or community members from our district or anywhere else for that matter! We’d love to have you Skype into one of our meetings if you are available!
We need you! There is a hole called middle-America. I live in that blank space in the middle. I will review your book and try to get your message to places the East and Far West ignore. I write and blog and… but I am in the hole, and what I share is of no value because of the Eastern mind-set.
September 17 Philadelphia Free Library is at 7:30 p.m., per http://libwww.freelibrary.org/authorevents/. I hope “Reign of Error” will be on sale there!
I have heard that the Philadelphia Free Library is sold out but they are selling tickets for overflow (I am receiving any fee, by the way).
If there is any way we could convince you to come to Kalamazoo Mi (21/2 hours from Detroit or Chicago I would immediately begin to find funds for this to happen.
Patricia Carlin
Kalamazoo Central High School
All Giants Achieve Program
Co-Advisor Class of 2016
(269) 337-0330 x534
carlinpa@kalamazoo.k12.mi.us
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We are VERY excited that you’re coming to Rhode Island. You have many fans here. Take care of yourself, Diane.
Many in Douglas County, Colorado want to hear you speak in Denver. Do you know who is organizing so we can start looking at getting tickets?
We want to be there!!!
Dear Diane,
What a great, if damanding, schedule! I’ll plan to trot up to my younger daughter’s former middle school in Berkeley on Sept 28th, Reign of Error in hand, to congratulate you in person for the great work you are doing. Methinks that perhaps this madness just might be susceptible of being turned around!
“Good health and good sense are two of life’s greatest blessings.” [Publilius Syrus]
I hope you continue to have both in abundance on your book tour.
🙂
Good grief, Diane! This is an example of taking it easy?! I hope there is someone who can rein you in if necessary. Thank you for your staunch belief in us and public education.
2old2teach: I can’t help it. I get outraged by the mudslinging and the teacher bashing. Let them come after me. I can take it.
Again, thank you. I’m sitting here with tears in y eyes.
How about the bashing of teacher educators? Do you have a problem with that, Diane, or do you believe that we are “intellectually vacuous,” too, as the pit bull parent that’s been promoting Core Knowledge (and repeatedly attacking Chemtchr), who seems to have followed Hirsch here, wrote on your blog today?
Cosmic T, as I wrote a few minutes ago, I oppose the bashing of educators. It is stupid and counter-productive. I have had many differences in the past with teacher education, but I nonetheless believe that all teachers should have strong professional preparation–at least a year of study and research, as well as student teaching–before entering the classroom as a teacher. That year of study and research requires teacher educators. Why bash those who prepare professionals?
Thrilled you’ll be in Rhode Island, Diane! Thanks for all the good work you do.
Just purchased tickets for my wife and myself through http://www.brownpapertickets.com for Sept 28th at MLK Jr JHS on Rose Street in Berkeley. Greatly looking forward to this event!
Won’t you please come to Boston
Excited to see you in Princeton!
Sacramento!! Enjoyed you last time you came and wouldn’t miss it! So tired of being blamed for not doing the impossible.
Diane, The following are some discrepancies that I can’t reconcile in your schedule:
The Schedule that is on your website indicates no location in Chicago, on Nov 13th, and it also says “all-day,” while on this page you indicated 7:30 pm at the First Free Church.
I checked the schedule on the website for the First Free Church and they aren’t showing an event for you then. Have those arrangements been confirmed?
http://firstfree.com/calendar/
Also, will it be a book signing or a speaking engagement? If the latter, any idea what places like that usually charge for this?
Never mind regarding my last paragraph. I checked around and see now how speaking and book signing seem to be typically combined. Also, various venues in a variety of areas appear to charge different fees –but all of them seem to be pretty reasonable for middle income folks.
“How about the bashing of teacher educators? Do you have a problem with that, Diane, or do you believe that we are “intellectually vacuous,” too, as the pit bull parent that’s been promoting Core Knowledge (and repeatedly attacking Chemtchr), who seems to have followed Hirsch here, wrote on your blog today?”
Cosmic Tinkerer, I sense an undertone of anger at Diane. Did I miss something?
2old2teach, I believe that teachers need a thorough professional preparation for teaching. Why would I approve of “bashing” teacher educators? If they are giving teachers the tools they need to succeed, they are doing a valuable service to the teachers and the profession, as well as children.
I was responding to a post from Cosmic Tinkerer that I did not understand, hence the quotation marks I put around the first paragraph. I was looking for more context for the comment that Cosmic Tinkerer made. Sorry if I wasn’t clear.
2old2teach, I’ve been feeling frustrated because, as I posted earlier today, most of the Teacher Educators with whom I’ve worked over the decades have had lengthy careers working as P-12 classroom Teachers themselves, so Teacher Educators get double doses of Teacher bashing.
The war on Teachers is intolerable to me and that includes when it occurs on this blog. When Teacher Educator bashing goes uncontested here, then I have to wonder if anyone really understands who we are and what we have been going through. As with P-12 teachers, we are accused of being dumb and anti-intellectual, so being scholars with multiple degrees and decades of classroom experience is insignificant to those who are intent on demonizing teachers. The number of full time tenure track positions has declined dramatically in higher ed, so about 75% of us are low-paid, contingent faculty who have no job security or academic freedom. We often have very little influence in our own departments, let alone over policy makers in our legislatures, and all of this is very disheartening as well.
For example, I would like to see Teacher preparation become required at the master’s level, with a full year of student teaching, but in this economy and zeitgeist, who is stepping up and proposing financial support for student teachers engaged in an entire year of unpaid work? Even the typical semester long unpaid student teaching experience is financially challenging for many. Then there are additional student loans for the extra years in college, which are difficult as it is to pay back on a Teacher’s salary. Plus, states have been eliminating additional compensation to Teachers for graduate work, so we are actually going in the opposite direction now.
It’s just all extremely frustrating and I often feel like no one fully understands or cares.
We do care, Cosmic, but so much is being lobbed at us all at once (testing, privatization,loss of tenure,salary decreases, pension reform–& on & on, ad nauseum)–it’s as if we educators are playing a one-sided, bully-perpetrated game of dodgeball–& we aren’t allowed any opportunity to throw back. I have friends who teach in universities & colleges, & it is so bad in the education departments (decline in students), that one university laid off almost its entire tenured faculty. Now, those coming forth to teach are all hired as adjuncts–part time, no benefits. I am so sorry for everyone. And, on a personal level, I had been hoping to teach special education teacher candidates–but no one is hiring! So–whether it be online courses or TFA hiring preferences, I agree (& know) that you guys are getting a really, really bad deal.
That’s why we ALL have to keep the fight going (for you higher educators, too!), & why Diane is subjecting herself to a grueling schedule. I strongly agree with her that–in the end–the truth will win. Yes, WE can…& we WILL!
Thanks so much Retiredbutmissthekids!
“We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.” Ben Franklin
Diane,
I am so looking forward to seeing you during your Seattle appearance and I’m spreading the word to friends and acquaintances who really DON’T understand what’s going on with American public eduction.
I recommend to everyone that we go beyond just inviting our friends who already know about Diane and agree with her.
This is an opportunity for us to expose the unfamiliar to Diane’s ideas, to bring new people into the fold, to help expand the knowledge of Diane’s ideas and bring them into public dialogue as well as the kitchen table, local tavern, beauty parlor and neighborhood restaurant.
I’m pledging to personally bring at least 3 new people to hear Diane; I’m inviting some of the more already active and energetic PTA parents who have a wide network of their own and who, I believe, would be very responsive to Diane’s message.
In the spirit of positive cooperation, I urge all of us to bring new people to hear Diane and, hopefully, expand awareness of Diane’s important message and bring new energy and activism into our movement.
Also, Diane. I would recommend that you look into the possibility of doing more webcasts and webinars in the future. It would allow you to cut back a bit on travel, but also potentially reach a much larger audience, anywhere on our planet.
These “Virtual Speeches” can be delivered from anywhere, and seen by anyone with a decent Internet connection. Sometimes they’re delivered from the home office, or they are a live webcast (broadcast) from the auditorium or meeting room you’re actually speaking in, but also simultaneously available to anyone who wants to watch it, live, or as an archived recording.
Last year, for instance, I watched former Vice President, Al Gore, deliver a speech at my alma mater, Hampshire College, in real time, over the web. It was a lot easier and cheaper than getting back to Amherst, and both the image and the sound were excellent—almost as good as watching it on network television.
I’m heavily involved in virtual meetings technology on behalf of my clients, who use it extensively. I’m somewhat of an expert with all of this, and while I think that it will never be a complete substitute for a live meeting or presentation, it is still a superb way of reaching many new people, and reducing the cost, time and stress, for both speakers and attendees.
If you’d like to learn more about this, please feel free to contact me at my email below. Again, I’m looking forward to seeing you later this month in Seattle.
Thanks, Puget Sound Parent, all good ideas. I will shift in that direction after the fall.
You could come to Portland Oregon… We love you here!
To Teacher Ed & all those Chicagoans who have a ? about her November 13th First Free Church appearance: it is being sponsored by that GREAT Chicago (Andersonville) book store, Women & Children First. If you have a question, call them at (773) 769-9299. They are very responsive & will be able to answer all your questions! (In all my experience with them, they have not charged for events such as this {they once hosted Margaret Cho at the Swedish American Museum–talk [hilarious!] AND book signing–FREE!}) But–perhaps an admission will benefit the church–? Call!
Retiredbutmissthekids, Wow! Wonderful to know! That’s my neck of the woods. I’ll look into it. Thank you ever so much!!
Please, please, please come to Tampa, FL. Hillsborough County eighth-graders lost about 16 instructional days to testing last year.
Who do I contact in Denver for the Sept 25 gathering at North High? I can’t wait to be there! You will inject some much-needed information into the debate.
How can I get tickets to any of the Southern California events? I would love to see her in person!
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