Here is news you can use! Carol Burris and Leonie Haimson now have a regular one-hour radio show on WBAI In New York. The show is called TALK OUT OF SCHOOL, and it will appear weekly. WBAI is part of the progressive Pacifica Network.
In their first show, they discussed student privacy, a subject on which Leonie is a national advocate and expert, and they analyzed current controversies about diversity, selective admissions, and racial integration, a subject where Carol has extensive experience as principal of a detracked high school on Long Island.
Leonie is executive director of Class Size Matters and co-founder of the national Parent Coalition for Student Privacy. Carol is executive director of the Network for Public Education.
Next week, Leonie will interview civil rights attorney Wendy Lecker.
Of this you can be certain, this show will be a place to hear talk that is characterized by experience, common sense, and wisdom.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Posted at OPED with these comments ( which have links to the articles I mention)
comment one
So… you want real news?How about the truth about public education?
Democracy depends on shared knowledge, and income equality depends on all the people’s access to authentic learning experiences… which cannot happen in classes with huge amount of kids.
The NPE was established to tell YOU– the public– about what is needed, what is real and true.
Listen to these longtime activists and educators who KNOW WHAT LEARNING LOOKS LIKE, and what is needed to fulfill the Constitution’s promise for T HE COMMON GOOD!
Comment 2
Why does everyone need to hear what Carol and Leonie have to say? Well, this wonderful article ” Who should be writing about education and isn’t? https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2019/09/03/who-should-be-writing-about-education-isnt/ ” looks at how elite media outlets address education. and points out that even in the New Yorker, where the 63% of the 38 articles about medicine were written by doctors, in the meager 17 articles about education; not a single one of them is written by a professional educator, nary a classroom teacher or educational researcher among the authors.Rose says: ” this disparity in authorship, this absence of people closest to the remarkable act of educating, has come to represent for me a much bigger issue having to do with the place of education in our society,
Comment 3
The NPE, which (former ass’t Secretary of Educaiotn) Dr. Ravitch founded is the other reliable place for FACTS about the war on public schools, and the plot to end an educated citizenry.
The nonprofit advocacy group Network for Public Education, is the BEST place to go if you want FACTS about schools.
Newsletters – Network For Public Educationand this:
Asleep at the Wheel: – Network For Public Education
All citizens who need to know what is afoot in 15,880 separate school systems in 50 states, should read Diane’s daily posts, which nail the war on education in America and the world!
This link, will take you to all the articles on charter fraud, at the blog of Diane Ravitch!
This link is to the posts where legislatures are replacing local school boards, with not an educator on board.
Trust me, this is a real, hidden assault on education”.get ’em young and keep ’em dumb so you can re-write history, and create ‘alternative facts’ in this post-truth world. And enrich the corporations that push privatizations(this link is to my series)and sell testing.
Also, if you wish to know how this began…don’t miss her book:Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America’s Public Schools.
Thank you for letting us know! I love the format of radio, as I can clean house and become educated at the same time.
This is the new model being worked out by reformers – to use public funds to create transient residency housing on public school land (or gentry land in exhange for a benefit ). Fill it with TFA’s and AmeriCorp non-educators who will push ed tech so the funders of TFA’s and Americorp can profit off their “good” deed$.
Look locally at you district’s Facilities and Finance committees. That is where the work is being done.
If you want to slow the rate of Ed Tech in the classrooms, look at your Special Ed committee. It might be stacked and used as the reason for putting more ed tech into gen ed.