Paul Thomas quotes Susan Ohanian, who has been blogging for 13 years. Ohanian wrote that she is cutting back on her blogging because “Everybody blogs. Nobody reads.”
He writes:
“The online world of public debate about education and education reform has included the ugliest part of social media—anonymous vitriol—but it has also, for me, created a much more troubling dynamic. On more than one occasion, I have been refuted and attacked (based on false assumptions) by those with whom I share solidarity.
“It is all too easy, then, for those of us who share the same mission to turn on each other while those who are running the education reform machine sit by mostly untouched.
“In fact, that is what the minority in power thrive on—divide and conquer.”
I want to encourage Susan and Paul to hang in there. People do read you. They count on you. They learn from you. Ignore attacks, whether they come from critics or allies. Your voices matter. Never underestimate the trolls. They have a job to do. So do you.
Stay with us. We need you
Diane Ravitch's blog 
I try to read them: Mercedes, Bob Braun, Jonathan Pelto, Jack Hassard…… PLEASE KEEP WRITING… don’t stop writing… I always forward things to other people…. even if my colleagues don’t have time to read; I send emails to the governor and the Ed. Secretary quoting these people and I know the information goes onto the hard drive even if no one reads or responds….. I also read about Jesse Turner and follow his walking progress….
I want to encourage Susan and Paul to hang in there. People do read you.
jeanhaverhill@aol.com
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I agree with Diane and Jean and many others.
The first blog I discovered was Susan’s. Written with wit and with direct quotes to show how idiotic educational thinking and the press coverage of education was becoming. I was led to her blog after the death of Gerald Bracey whose Kappan articles made sense of exaggerated claims and cautions in making policy decisions based on questionable research. He gave me a couple of phrases I still use without proper credit to hm–inferential long jumps through thin air–usually in reference to the work of economists and statisticians. Please take a breather if you need it, but never underestimate the imporance of your work.
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If she means Reads With Comprehension then yes, but that’s a perennial problem.
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It’s hard enough to get accurate information and perspective about what’s happening in education, and what is out there is almost exclusively from education bloggers. Granted, the people who most need to be reading blogs aren’t, but at least those of us who look for alternative information can find it. Most of us don’t have the time to be doing the independent research, aggregating and analysis that bloggers do. I personally regularly read this blog and at least three others daily, plus I often read other bloggers linked to those blogs.
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I agree with you Diane…I blog…and read…and much more of the latter.
I think the big problem is that there are many bloggers speaking, but those who have the money – aka the “reformers” – don’t want to hear what is being said for fear it will cut into profits.
Personally, I think it’s awesome that teachers, parents, and other public school advocates have found their “voice.” Like it says on the NPE web site…
“We are many. There is power in our numbers. Together we will save our schools.”
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Stu,
Social media is dominated by teachers, parents, and other critics of corporate reform. This is our tool for communication and democracy. The corporatists set up a blog for $12 million. It can’t compete with those of us who blog for free, driven by passion and principle.
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Good for you, Diane. I pass on information and rely on people like Susan Ohanian, Paul Thomas Stephen Krashen, and Peggy Robertson, etc.
We need their voices!
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Well, that can’t be true or I wouldn’t be reading this would I? I know there are a lot of bloggers. I am one myself but I do think they are being read so if you have a blog and know how to use it, please do!
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Everyone does not write, some of us still read. I know that all my teacher friends read and do not write.
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Diane,
We need YOU! I do read several blogs–your blog is #1!
My best, Deanna
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Though I normally consider the NY Post to be not a great source of info, Jeb Bush just published an article that has no surprises, but, is shockingly narrow and desperately needs to be fact checked against reality.
http://nypost.com/2015/06/23/school-choice-is-the-best-hope-for-new-yorks-kids-and-americas/
Funny how choice resolves all problems…except when it doesn’t – there should not be escape hatch schools for the few “strivers” and the rest of the non-strivers can sink in schools that will eventually close due to their collective non-striverness (striverity?).
What IS interesting is his statement that he will diminish the federal DOE to send more money back to states so they can have more choice and flexibility…what is indeed very interesting is if that means he is going to predicate federal funds from the DOE on creating more “choice” whether states want it or not (you can be flexible….in what choices you offer).
Apparently his motto is that everyone should have choice on the public dime, whether or not they want one (and contrary to the failing school narrative MANY people love their community school).
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Yeah and it is the best thing for Jeb Bush and many others bank account. That is the bottom line here. CHOICE is not the answer and once day parents will find out they not only will end up with NO CHOICE they will have NO VOICE either and no power to affect anything when it comes to education and of course this is what they are striving for. Take parents out of the picture. Reduce them to breeders of human capital for the global economy. We are already teaching our kids the school feeds them not parents, the school provides medical services instead of inconveniencing parents to DO THEIR JOB. We are traveling down a slippery slope and when you accept the concept of school year round, 7 days a week, 24 hours a day as the center of the community we will have lost all parental rights. They and that includes Jeb Bush DOES NOT want parents to have Choice. He wants parents out of the picture completely.
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I also overlooked how he described the use of co-location by charter schools as being in “unused” public facilities – because only a quote can do it justice – “Gov. Cuomo and the state Legislature passed a law guaranteeing charters rent-free access to unused public-school facilities.”
I can’t tell if he is simply ignorant or simply trying to create a lie – that law didn’t just permanently allow co-location in underutilized facilities, and many of the displaced students who rallied against co-location I doubt would describe their facilities as being unused. It also made New York pay for private facilities if they couldn’t find “unused” space.
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I would agree. So often when a blogger posts there is no response by many except for a posting of their own, sort of on the topic comment. Frustrating indeed.
In addition, I find many blogs to be very negative, more about exposing the enemy as opposed to talking about more societal issues, historical antecedents, and positives in education.
As the circle of bloggers has enlarged, the idea of reading and conversation about topics has cycled into the inevitable cult of celebrity as do all forms of American media.
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Not sure what your talking about. The best blogs are well informed and very informative. The popularity, or celebrity, aspect of a blog, and of many regular commenters on the blog, for me at least, is based on the power of the ideas presented, not some abstract cult of celebrity.
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David, I agree that not all blogs are created equal. Mine, for example, is written by an amateur…and there are times (likely too many) when all I do is editorialize and spew negativity, however, I don’t agree that it has cycled into the “cult of celebrity.”
Bloggers like Diane, Anthony Cody, Mercedes Schneider, Peter Greene, and Paul Thomas often editorialize, but most of the time they provide important information. There’s a reason that Diane’s blog has in excess of 21 million page views. It’s because she provides important information…not because she’s a celebrity. I would agree that some people come here because she’s well known…but they return for the content.
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False as far as I am concerned: I read them all but don’t blog.
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We read! We share! We educate! We make change!
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We need Susan!
Here is an example of why:
http://www.susanohanian.org/core.php?id=824
She sounded the alarm back in the 1990s. Read her books. They will open your eyes, change your mind, and make you an angry activist, lol.
Diane, Susan, and the late Gerry Bracey were my source of what was happening to my beloved profession back before blogging took off and then petered out on EDDRA.
I read and I actively fight. Please don’t stop what you do, we need you!
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Susan’s book, One Size Fits Few was instrumental in my own education. I was a Reading Recovery teacher when it was published (1999) and was appalled at the amount of testing that had developed since I had been a classroom teacher. At the time I was blaming our school system and even my principal (who could have been blamed for a lot of things, but not that). It turns out that the overuse and misuse of testing was growing across the country with the “Standardista” (as Susan called it) movement.
We do need Susan…and Gerry Bracey’s absence is significantly felt. But we have a band of citizen journalists – bloggers – who are fighting and won’t give up. Many of us are members of the Education Bloggers Network (http://edubloggers.org). It’s a great source of information…
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Please keep blogging! I am most grateful to all those who do the research and share what they have learned. I wouldn’t know most of what I know about what is going on in education world if it weren’t for bloggers. Blogs such as this one helped me to realize that I was far from alone with my concerns about Common Core even though I was the only teacher sharing concerns in my school at the time.
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Diane as much as I respond to many bloggers I can say for me that is not true at all. I received email from many bloggers and I read them all. Of course I have no life but to me there is nothing more important in life than to save our kids and our country. So I sacrifice all of my personal time to the fight and to reading so I can educate others and it is because of bloggers that so many of us have gained the knowledge we have today.
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I often get derided for posting in the current affairs forum of the Post Dispatch. I get the usual assortment of cartoons of exploding brains, people offering nothing other than “you are stupid”, but I also get the occasional replies from more thoughtful people, sometimes challenging, sometimes in support. (I regard challenges as a good form of support).
I am often told…why don’t you start your own blog….nobody would read it, either.
I think it is ridiculous for the PD to offer nine forums on sports, and relegate education to current affairs, where the writer has about fifteen minutes to connect with people to keep their post alive. I use a lot of the material I discover here, more often than not using the links Diane provides to access the original author, but sometimes what she actually says to introduce the subject.
The Post Dispatch has a long history of bad reporting regarding the subject of charter schools…..so lately, this post has come in handy..”The Post Dispatch needs a forum to discuss–charter schools.” It has the advantage of being easily bumped back to the first page, and the sources worthy of discussion regarding charters are unending….having one subject, vaguely reported, vaguely understood by the public, opens a lot of possibilities, both with local and national stories. I often point to states like Michigan, or Florida or Louisiana and ask…..is this where Missouri is headed?
One bonus, in my admittedly prejudiced opinion…..my signature for every post includes links to my nephew, Matt Grossmann, and his wife, Sarah Reckhow; people who have achieved extraordinary levels of research (last week I sent Sarah an early morning note to wake up….your work is being referenced by Diane Ravitch!). Follow the Money is an in depth study of how large foundations are using their money in the field of education….Matt has been working on the subject of “How Do the Rich Rule? Public Opinion, Parties & Interest Groups in Unequal Policy Influence.” Hope he figures it out and tells a few people.
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As one growing up reading both the StLPD and Globe Democrat, I can say that the current PD site leaves a lot to be desired. You are correct about the appalling coverage of public education issues unless it involves “the negative” of a district.
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Joe. Follow the Money… I have not read Sarah’s book but I did read the article in Educational Research and recycled some of that information to this blog along with some “data” on billionaires in the US from Forbes magazine. I think this is another example of how citizen journalism is being forwarded. I also informed Mercedes Schneider of the nifty software that Susan and her colleagues used to produce something like an old-fashioned sociograph of the interlocking work of foundations and the darlings who are getting grants from more than one foundation. Lots of us are continuing to teach and learn through the blogs, and in ways far more timely, satisfying, and interactive than conventional paths for publication.
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Well as someone who has also blogged about public education (mostly Seattle public education), I say she’s right. I am astonished at how many people skim(not read) and then attack. They don’t do research or interview people but hey, we all went to school so we all have an opinion, right?
I agree we need solidarity especially if we are going up against the powers that be. But we have so much truth in what we are seeing and then writing about that it gives me faith every day.
There does seem to be a new meme out there for corporate ed reform; to whit, a kinder, gentler ed reform. The “solutions journalism” that pretends to be inclusive and looking for answers but, all the while, is taking dollars from Gates to do so.
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“I agree we need solidarity especially if we are going up against the powers that be.”
I like what Thomas said in a reply to a commenter in his post that “we should speak to a shared goal and not speak with one voice”.
Powerful thought!
Deserves a TAGrO, eh!!!
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i read paul’s blog about susan’s blog, and am glad to read yours about this issue. i READ, i don’t blog, i SHARE…..we make memes to get important info from blogs into the world…. (BATs Meme Team…) i would add to the comments one more that says we NEED these blogs….ignore the trolls indeed….though they serve a purpose….and yes, though it seems there are only crickets in response at times, many of us depend on what we are learning…..from you all!
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Doing the right thing is never easy. And in the eyes of the leaders of the self-proclaimed “education reform” movement—where is the profit, the power, the celebrity in having a moral compass?
It is easy to get tired and feel beaten down by the edubullies and edufrauds as they use their bludgeons of sneer, jeer and smear on all those for a “better education for all.”
They say it is often darkest before the dawn.
The beginning of a speech of 1854 by William Lloyd Garrison:
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LET ME DEFINE MY POSITIONS, and at the same time challenge anyone to show wherein they are untenable. I am a believer in that portion of the Declaration of American Independence in which it is set forth, as among self-evident truths, “that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” Hence, I am an abolitionist. Hence, I cannot but regard oppression in every form-and most of all, that which turns a man into a thing-with indignation and abhorrence. Not to cherish these feelings would be recreancy to principle. They who desire me to be dumb on the subject of slavery, unless I will open my mouth in its defense, ask me to give the lie to my professions, to degrade my manhood, and to stain my soul. I will not be a liar, a poltroon, or a hypocrite, to accommodate any party, to gratify any sect, to escape any odium or peril, to save any interest, to preserve any institution, or to promote any object. Convince me that one man may rightfully make another man his slave, and I will no longer subscribe to the Declaration of Independence. Convince me that liberty is not the inalienable birthright of every human being, of whatever complexion or clime, and I will give that instrument to the consuming fire.
I do not know how to espouse freedom and slavery together. I do not know how to worship God and Mammon at the same time. If other men choose to go upon all fours, I choose to stand erect, as God designed every man to stand. If, practically falsifying its heaven-attested principles, this nation denounces me for refusing to imitate its example, then, adhering all the more tenaciously to those principles, I will not cease to rebuke it for its guilty inconsistency. Numerically, the contest may be an unequal one, for the time being; but the author of liberty and the source of justice, the adorable God, is more than multitudinous, and he will defend the right. My crime is that I will not go with the multitude to do evil. My singularity is that when I say that freedom is of God and slavery is of the devil, I mean just what I say. My fanaticism is that I insist on the American people abolishing slavery or ceasing to prate of the rights of man ….
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Link: http://www.blackpast.org/1854-william-lloyd-garrison-no-compromise-evil-slavery
Remember: not that many years before the start of the Civil War, things looked pretty bleak for the abolition of chattel slavery. And nowadays, not a day passes that some new development might make folks think that things look pretty bleak for ensuring a “better education for all.”
As the old saying going, it’s darkest before the dawn. If you feel you can’t go on, just remember:
“Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.”
Harriet Tubman. She didn’t say it would be easy. But she did say we could do it.
And the tide has been turning, albeit slowly and painfully, for a while.
“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” [Mahatma Gandhi]
As I see it, we are in stage 3.
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Hang together or hang separately.
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I have learned so much from this blog, and I have been introduced to the other blogs through this medium. The information passed on through these blogs is enlightening and empowering.
I do think that the anti-Rheeformist movement needs to develop a practical alternative to the standardized test, fake accountability regime. That is a heavy lift which involves some abstract concepts not conducive to being reduced to a data point. However, the research and experience is already out there to point in a better direction.
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I make a point to read too many posts on other blogs on a daily basis, and this gets in the way of me writing posts for my blogs and working on my next manuscript, but I keep on reading anyway.
But, often I do not leave comments and I appreciate the LIKE button because that allows me to let the host of the Blog know I was there and took the time to read what they wrote or at least scan it. Sometimes in the case of a really long post, I’ll read the lead paragraph and then jump to the conclusion, because I don’t have all day. If a blog host makes leaving a comment difficult, I will skip leaving a comment. I don’t have time for difficult, and avoid it most of the time because that clock keeps ticking and other of us have better things to do.
As for everyone blogging and no one reading, NO, I don’t agree with that! From what I’ve read, there are about 30 million blogs but more than 60 million avid readers in the U.S. alone and most of those bloggers start and give up quickly so how many blogs are there where a dedicated blogger refuses to give up?
However, two keys that attracts readers is the title of a blog post and what brings them back is the the length of the blog posts.
And I think the facts support that. When I took a day long workshop in blogging on how to attract readers and keep them coming back for more, we were told by the teacher of that workshop, who has several blogs that attract millions of readers daily, that we should keep our blog posts to 300 words on average with an occasional longer post of 500 – 1000 words. He told us to include internal and external embedded links and add an image or embedded video because studies show readers like to look at images and short videos. Hint: when you embed a link include words not “here”, “here” and “here”, because search engines read the words in embedded links and use that as a way to rank a site and rank a post for a search.
He also said the average visitor to blogs spends less than 30 seconds before the surf away to find something else that interests them and long posts tend to drive them away faster.
In addition, the title of a post is the same as a newspaper headline and that title is what will appear first in a search. That means the blogger is competing against all the other titles that will appear on the first page of a search—most searchers never look at the second page of a Google search and if your post/blog lands on any page but page one, the odds of new readers finding your posts is slim to none.
I’ve read a lot of posts from the Education Bloggers Network, and I think some of those bloggers, no matter how will informed and articulate they are, could learn to write better titles. Many of the titles do not attract attention, are too long to fit in a Tweet on Twitter and many also don’t make sense except probably to someone who is a member of the resistance to stop corporate education reform.
It also takes time to build search engine rank. It doesn’t happen overnight or even in a few months. We were told in that workshop that to land on the first page of a Google search or any search engine, we had to have at last 1,000 posts within a year.
And cross linking to similar blogs is important. We have more than 200 members in the Education Bloggers Network but I don’t think many of them have cross linked with each other. If all of the bloggers in that network cross linked with all the other members, that would help boost search engine ranking for every member.
Then there is the inverted pyramid that journalists learn about—I did when I was working toward my BA in journalism. Don’t save the most important facts for last. Put them in a lead paragraph designed to hook your reader, and the follow up with your strongest evidence in the following paragraphs to keep that reader reading.
I admit that I haven’t always followed the suggestions in this comment, but I try to and I think that is the reason that hundreds of thousands of readers have stopped to read one or more of the posts published on my my four blogs and some of them to buy one or more of my four published books.
Just like everyone else—-and that includes the RheeFormers—we are competing for someone’s time & attention, and if we don’t pay attention to the rules the media figured out long ago, the odds are going to be against us.
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“He also said the average visitor to blogs spends less than 30 seconds before the surf away to find something else that interests them and long posts tend to drive them away faster.”
So you’re just testing us, eh Lloyd???
(Just funnin ya, Lloyd, I always read your insightful comments)
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Actually, I read recently that the average internet surfer is down to 20 seconds before the odds are that their attention flies away. If true, that means we have 20 seconds to grab their attention and keep it long enough to educate them. How many words can the average reader read in 20 seconds?
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Well, reading what you wrote took 13 seconds using a stopwatch site so take off a second or two and you get 10-11 seconds to read it. Figure a reading about twice as long as what you wrote or combine this answer with your post and it’d be about 20 seconds.
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Not much can be read in that 20 seconds, eh!!
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For the dedicated internet surfers with short attention spans, and there are many of them, we have that 20 seconds to grab their attention with the headline for our posts and then hook them with the first paragraph and then keep them so they read the second paragraph, and by the time they reach that 20 second threshold, if we lose them, they at least leave educated a little bit more.
That’s what the inverted pyramid in journalism is designed to do, and the most dramatic, important information we want them to leave with should appear in the text they can read in the first 20 seconds.
And it all starts with that headline designed to get them to click the link.
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I read Diane Ravitch maybe not 12+ a day, but scan all. Read many. Hope that is true for followers of these and other bloggers about the importance of public schools.
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That’s just not true… In fact I will say that I trust a specific set of bloggers more that I do the news. In fact the top blogs for me are:
1) Ravitch
2) Cody (Living in dialogue)
3) Ed Shyster
4) Ohanian
Anybody I should add?
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James Clark,
So many great bloggers, it is hard to choose. Two that I find indispensable: Peter Greene, Jersey Jazzman. Many more.
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James Clark,
And of course, Mercedes Schneider.
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YES! Thanks! I should have included Mercedes Schneider on that first list… just so you know… 🙂
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Mercedes Schneider’s: deutsch29
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My fellow bloggers in OK have talked about this…our posts with the highest number of fews are the rants…granted, we have lots about which to rant.
But as reflective educators, we also post pieces about our practice, or the books we’re reading…true reflective pieces. They are NOT viewed as many times. So, the question becomes, “do I stay in anger-mode to rant, or do I stay true to my voice and my vision?”
I’m guilty of reading blogs of friends and of education authors I admire, sharing them on social media, but not responding to the original piece. I know I’m losing an opportunity for dialogue with great minds in education. I need to engage more in the conversations about thought-provoking posts. Thank the blogger for stretching my understanding.
The online community I’ve created for myself of bloggers, some of whom are friends, and others are giants in the field, has enriched my understanding of our profession, and my place in it.
So, I need to become a more intentional reader and responder, huh? Thomas’s piece really hit home for me.
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I’m just starting a blog after publishing my book last year about two decades of teaching at an urban high school in Providence, Rhode Island. On first read, this post was kind of discouraging, but then I thought, yes, there will be readers. It may be very few; my most recent post got a handful of likes and two people commented by email. But that’s okay with me. I live in a very small state; if two people are moved by what I write, and if they subscribe, and if they forward it to a few of their friends, and if this happens repeatedly, it will contribute to the energy against high-stakes standardized testing and corporate charters in Rhode Island. I don’t have to reach the world; I can do my part where I live and trust that other bloggers will be writing about their local struggle.
You put something out in the world and never know where it will go and how it will be received. I’m always surprised when I find out that someone in New York or Maryland or Europe has read my book and has been touched by it. I had a very pleasant shock yesterday when Diane responded to a letter I wrote her in 2013! That obviously would never have happened if I hadn’t written the letter. The point being, we who are writers need to keep writing about what we care about.
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An internet search, by topic, leads to blog site references for Ohanian, Jersey Jazzman, etc. It’s proof people are reading the information posted. The sites are both topical and create an archive of valuable information. In a better world, bloggers who are fighting for public education, would drown out the Walton/Gates-funded propaganda. But, still, bloggers, on the side of the angels, reduce the audience for the vulture philanthropies.
Caving in, out of despair, can’t be an option. Easy for me to say but, deeply felt.
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Even though the reformsters tactics and policies remain the same, rebranding, renameing and other deceptions notwithstanding, I think it’s essential to keep hammering away for this read one: as we continue to see, when we debunk and refute reformy propaganda, those who at first were fooled by the lies and are the outraged to learn how they have been tricked and set to act against their own interests will never be fooled again. This is one of the major factors that has grown our movement. Our numbers are far greater than just a few years ago, this is not the time to go silent, it is the time to continue to provide timely information. It is also fine to do as I do, share saved articles and blogs to show that we have been fighting the lies and corrupt influence for a long time and that we continue to prevail against a far more wealthy and powerful opponent. When it comes to responding to our own who don’t quite get it, keep it simple and short, refer them to third party sources of which there are many. Also, don’t discount the possibility of false flag attacks from stealth reformy “friends”. The Agenda 21 folks and other tin foil hats merit only the posting of one of the many refutations that already exist, no need to write a new one. Cut, copy and paste. Bookmark and share. I have hundreds.
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I am having a hard time imagining where we would be today if it wasn’t for the education bloggers community. Even if we could rely on the national media to present a balanced picture, bloggers reach both a wider circle as well as their local communities. I am so glad that so many people are willing to lend their expertize to those of us who otherwise would really be in the dark.
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This blog has been my life line. I read this blog every day. During the school year I often skip the links. During the summer, I invest more time. This gives me hope that we might see changes.
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Firstgrademonkey, the changes are coming. Day by day, the privatizers get more desperate. We will recapture one hill at a time.
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I too am hopeful. Just wanting the pace to quicken.
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If every teacher and principal voted, things would change faster. If every parent who wants a neighborhood public school voted, things would change even faster. We have the numbers, we have the power, we must use it to support democracy.
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I liked your post about every teacher voting. I can encourage that amongst my colleagues.
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Education Blogs—I read copiously. I comment occasionally. I share enthusiastically.
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Dissenting in an environment that is so tightly controlled by the ideological corporate reformers requires a resolute determination besides a personal mission. The work of those who want others to notice or acknowledge wrongs is never ignored. Perhaps is not noticed immediately, but the information, the dissenters’ reasoning, vision, and their look for the common good open eyes and minds to new possibilities and alternatives for the problems we all face. I for one have followed you for a long time.
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While I read and respect many ed. bloggers, and sympathize with Ohanian et.al., the natural life cycle of the Resistance as a social movement may be a factor. In the early stages, which are behind us, it is natural that there will be greater demand for information, explanation and analysis. Now, however, the roles of activist and organizer will become more important, and bloggers less so. There will always be a place for bloggers, but maybe it is appropriate that their collective contribution be diminished relative to organizers in light of the maturation and needs of the Resistance. If the energy of individual bloggers could be re-channeled to organizing, which will be appealing to some and not to others, it may be another, and possibly a better, way to achieve the blogger’s primary goal–unplugging CC/reform. Fact is, at this point, a mountain chain of words will not topple Humpty. Perhaps bloggers who cut back or stop can take heart knowing phase 2 could never achieve success without the seeds they have planted.
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Please do not stop writing. The vitriol is a way of sowing discouragement, infighting, division, and distraction from the cause. Ignore the haters and write …. write …. write ….
“I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being concious of living.”
― Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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This is oxygen for me. Please keep it coming. I read the posts and the replies. Then I go to Twitter and read there to keep up. You are our main resource for truth and information Diane. We need this blog. Our survival as public educators depends upon it.
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I read and share. I count on respected bloggers like these 2 to help me stay current in the education revolution. Your work is appreciated!
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