Today the blog passed 25 million page views.
This is a testament to you, the readers. You send me links to news stories in your communities. Sometimes the blog has breaking news and scoops the national media, not because I have great prescience but because you alert me to what is happening in your state or city or community. For example, this blog reported the Flint water scandal at least a week before the national media, and with more context and background. For that news, I thank our Michigan connections, especially Tom Pedroni of Eclectblog.
The purpose of the blog is to provide a platform where friends of public schools can get informed, make their views known, and discover that they are not alone. Sometimes when I read about the latest assault on public education or teachers, I think our country has gone mad. But I couldn’t keep up the blogging if I thought things were hopeless. I believe that common sense will return to replace the current punitive environment. It will happen because we won’t give up. We will encourage each other, we will discuss and debate tactics and strategy with allies. We will resist. We will not give up.
Diane
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Congrats! Ask each of us to send a dollar — $25M. Almost as good as Powerball! best, Max
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Max, I like your idea! But too late! I could have funded NPE.
It’s a good thought, but that 25 million is page views, which doesn’t, sadly, represent individual people. I probably account for about 500,000 of those page views personally. And, even more sadly, I don’t have $500,000 to donate.
You’re right, of course, Dienne, but I get more news here than from the NYT, to which I have a piad subscription. We could certainly fund NPE if people wanted to make a contribution of $5 apiece. I’m in!
I’ve already contributed $100 to NPE. I’m currently trying to decide if I can financially manage to come to the conference this year (it was a lot easier last year when it was in my backyard and I didn’t have to worry about airfare or lodging). If I can’t swing it myself, I will donate so that someone else can.
I don’t have any idea where the 25 million of us (😉) would be without you, Diane. Probably cowering under the bed in tears and waiting for the end of public schools as we know them.
Congratulations!
Congratulations and thank you! Diane, you could be quietly researching and writing in a study looking out at the snow. Instead you have invited us all for a conversation about education policy in real time. I’m very grateful!
Bravo! Keep shedding a light on issues regarding public education, and help wake up the sleeping giant of the American people. We need to avenues to gain access to information we will never see from mainstream media, and this blog provides a community service to all those people that believe democracy and the future of our young people are at stake in this struggle.
Momentum is a description of how forces can display power. Thank you for all you do.
Congratulations, Diane! You are an inspiration!
Ditto. You seem to have been placed here to do this work now, with everything prior to this blog and NPE Network preparing the way. Congratulations.
Simply, a profound thank you. To fully recognize your service to the nation, is impossible.
With justice, those people serving the right-wing zealots from discount retailing and, the greedy from cellophane valley and the financial markets, will suffer such public rebuke, that the price of their betrayal of democracy, will lead them, away form venture villainthropies, toward productive paths to making a living.
Reblogged this on David R. Taylor-Thoughts on Education and commented:
Thank you for leading the charge to fight “reform”.
Thanks, Diane! We will keep on keeping on….
Thank you for your energy, your brilliance, your willingness to keep this going with so much important information. If you asked for donations to a cause I know you would generate a lot of help from so many who rely on you and those in this community.
How heartening. I have learned so much from this blog and it has made me a more effective public school parent. I hope it has also helped me to advocate for other public school children in our community. Thank you, Diane!
Huge congratulations to you, Diane! You continue to do excellent and very important work! I look forward to reading your thoughts daily.
Congratulations on your success in fighting the good fight.
Wow–what an achievement! Thank you for providing us with this nexus. Thanks to you, we can move mountains–or try to, anyway!
Thank you, Diane, for opening up your living room & inviting us to visit – we all learn so much here!
A very old and very dead and very Greek guy said much the same thing:
“A guest never forgets the host who has treated him kindly.” [Homer]
I add my thanks to yours and to that of others.
😎
mil gracias y felicitaciones
Wonderful Way to start off the new year! Thank you for all your efforts and influence on public education.
You have personal integrity. You have worked long and hard to gain 25 million page views. You also have the respect of those who read and follow you.
Congratulations.
So grateful for your site! Proud of your success! Looking forward to the next milestone!
Congratulations and thank you, Diane.
Dear Dr Ravitch,
We are fortunate, better informed, and smarter because of your work. I choose the word smarter because you and your “regulars” offer insight and incisive thinking (and some needed humor ). I found your blog by serendipty two years ago when snowed in, and it’s been an Inspiration since.
Have you been in contact w/ Newark Students Union youngsters? It’s been awfully quiet.
Thank you – Diane – you are the best – incredible research – lots of great information.- an education for educators !
Dr. Ravitch, Congratulations, and thank you so much for this invaluable service. How you manage to pull together so much important information and distill it so rapidly, I don’t know, but you’re good at it. I love how you take a blurb or write comment on the right and give us a little headline on the left, making it easy to skim. You could teach a journalism course; I get way more information about public education here than from any other source.
a stop along the way
hit 25 mil after dispensing and professing educational knowledge
the Dr. still eyes the workings of schools like she’s in college
every facet of the system a collage
budget cuts in lunch lines- bullies with loot- acting like a looter
keep em in check – swatting their wrists with her words like a ruler with a comptuer
custodians- parents- playgrounds and faculty meetings her turf-
inherently
aware of how much education costs…
and how much kids are worth…
Thank you Dr. Ravitch – Anthony Mize
(Above it all…you make me think and that is a beautiful thing- extension of thought…)