I told you on Christmas morning that I would not be posting again until January 4, 2016.
But I could not contain myself. Every day, I read something informative, hilarious, or outrageous. Some will appear on or after January 4. Ignore the dates on the articles. None is dated or obsolete. But on a few occasions, I could not resist posting. It is a habit and a great sense of satisfaction to share with you what I learn and find interesting. That’s the main criteria for my posts: What I think you will find interesting, as I do.
I will try to confine myself to five posts a day. It won’t be easy.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
You deserve a break! Thank you for your interesting, informative and insightful articles.
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🙈🙉🙊 You can do no wrong. If you be happy, we be happy.
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It’s a pleasure catching up with you via your admission of failure, Diane. Thanks for somewhat modifying your Christmas resolve!
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Well, Jonathan Lovell, you know where good intentions take you!
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You do realize, Diane, that there are those of us who are just waiting for our latest fix? 🙂
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2old2teach,
I am as addicted to blogging as you are to reading the blog!
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Thank goodness!
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Diane:
YOU?
Keep away from your blog?
Really?
That’s like Gelsey Kirkland keeping away from a pair of ballet slippers . . . Emeril Lagasse refraining from a saute pan.
I learned that your breaking your promise makes you imperfect and flawed.
And I am very gratedul for that flaw, and selfishly admit to wanting more of it. I cannot stay away from your blog any more than you can.
Let’s just come clean and admit it:
Hooked is hooked when the less empowered and less knowledgeable become more empowered and more knowledegable. Its boundaries are infinite, and should be . . . .
You keep on being flawed, and I’ll keep on appreciatively reading, okay?
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Diane,
Have you had a chance to look at the Mountain Man Insights that I sent to you by Priority Mail? I believe that you will find some of them to be informative, some hilarious, and some outrageous. Most important, the “schools” Mountain Man Insights are a major new resource for those of us who are fighting to preserve and enhance our public schools. With one good blog you can take them out to the world.
Sincerely, Henry Kranz
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From a review of *Failure: Why Science is So Successful*—
change will take place “when we cease, or at least reduce, our devotion to facts and collections of them, when we decide that science education is not a memorization marathon, when we — scientists and nonscientists — recognize that science is not a body of infallible work, of immutable laws of facts. . . . And that most of what there is to know is still unknown.”
Firestein speaks a larger truth grasped, if seldom publicly acknowledged, by most career scientists. If there is any justification for man’s ability to overcome his own limits of reason, “Failure” stands as a shining example.
Thank you, Diane for helping keep us all informed. When we rid ourselves of high stakes testing, we will be able to let our students experiment without the fear of failure, but the joy of failure. Just cracks me up that “maker spaces” are now needed since high stakes testing and common core took play out of the curriculum k-12. A parent from 15 years ago wrote me to say, “this is what you’ve always done in your library!”
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Yaaaayy! She’s baaaaccckkk! 😍
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“Stop me before I post again!” (Best wishes for the trailing edge of your holiday!)
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Happy and healthy New Year Diane! Looking foward to devouring your 5 posts per day. I don’t know how you do it, I have a hard time finding the free time to write an occassional post of my own.
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Post on, Diane. We love it!
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Diane – Please consider one post a day that lists each of your links for the day in that one post. You can include one or two lines about the content of each link. I’m having difficulty keeping up with all your posts, some of which has limited relevance to my state.
Thanks for keeping up with all the news nation-wide and helping the rest of us keep up too. I don’t know how you do it all.
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Truman Fan,
I would do it if I could, but first, I don’t know how, and second, many of my posts are spur of the moment.
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