Thank you, dear readers.
Your comments have made this a far better blog. You continue to teach me and others by sharing your views and your experience and wisdom.
Some of the best posts on this blog were written by you.
Keep reading and keep commenting.
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Congrats! Your blog is required reading
Thank you, Sue.
I always look forward to reading the bolg.
Congratulations and thank you for providing a place for so many to respond to your own wonderful provocations to THINK about current events and especially public education, an institution under serious threat from billionaires and amateurs who falsely claim to have expertise in education and are, unlike you, ignorant of its histories.
Thank you for keeping me in the loop even though I am a retired educator. I am still politically active and I support public education through my words, my actions, and my donations of time and money.
Scientia potentia est.
❤
Must read for me!
Congratulations for reaching this milestone. I frequently share this blog with friends and family. Thank you for bridging the gap between scholarship and activism. Public schools need a voice, and you are key in providing one.
nicely said: “bridging the gap,” a truly a crucial action
Reprising an earlier note here:
Our Boadicea, Our Jeanne d’Arc, Is an 82-year-old Grandmother: an Existence Proof of the Stupidity of Ageism
I wanted to take this occasion to acknowledge the Herculean labors of Diane Ravitch.
Dr. Ravitch has for many years now been the most significant force for sanity in all of U.S. K-12 education. Day in and day out, she indefatigably calls out the charlatans and grifters on the education carnival midway and fights to protect our most important institution, our public schools. In addition to being our foremost historian of education, she has also become our premier muckraker–the Ambrose Bierce, Ida B. Wells, Ida Tarbell, Lincoln Steffens, Nelly Bly, and Upton Sinclair of our age. God bless her. My admiration and respect for this brilliant, fierce, relentless, indefatigable fighter for justice and equity in U.S. education, for our Boadicea, our Jeanne d’Arc, knows no bounds.
What a freaking beautiful human!
Chin chin!
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Are those maracas, Christine! If so, bravo! This calls for a little salsa dancing!
Should come across as champagne bottles!
Alas, I’m never confident about how emojis might be read in other browsers.
I get no kick from champagne.
Mere alcohol doesn’t thrill me at all,
but there’s one thing that keep me agog–
that’s reading Doc Ravitch’s blog.
Why, thank you!
I thought they were spray bottles of disinfectant to be sprayed in ones mouth upon contracting the corona virus.
OK. I repeated myself there. But I’m truly astonished at her energy!
Oh, my! I will drink to that!
I’m home too much these days. One of the things I love is reading your blogs and seeing the comments made by intelligent people.
THANK YOU, Diane, for enriching my life and the lives of anyone who reads your postings.
Have a great day and KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK! You are greatly admired, and for very good reasons. Your knowledge is phenomenal. I wish everyone would be able to read your writings and learn the truth of what is happening in education…and how politics influences everything that happens in this country. 🇺🇸
Congratulations on 37 million page views!!!
Absolutely phenomenal!
Quite the salon you’ve created here, dear Dr. Ravitch!
So many insightful voices here, Christine–yours included!
Thank you, Bob!
How wise of Diane to be assured her salon was virtual from its inception, ¿qué no?
lol!!!
Awesome achievement, and most deserved (unbelievable as it is) alternative reading.
For me, this site is the heart and soul of the internet. It is the antithesis of Trump’s twitter ravings. Thanks for being a beacon of hope.
37 million?
I figure at least half of those were mine.
I was going to comment that about 1 million might have been mine! But you got me beat.
Every time I meet a teacher (which is zero now that I’m not traveling), I tell them if they’re not reading Diane, they really don’t know what’s going on in education or the country.
Posting here reminds me of going to see old friends. Where else is there safety in discussion in this day?
Kudos, congrats and a heartfelt thank you for this invaluable, precious and irreplaceable education blog. I am so amazed at your daily Herculean efforts. You produce more articles and comments in one day than some other education web sites produce in a year. I have no idea how you are capable of absorbing, reading, interpreting and commenting on so many articles and issues each day. I am thankful that you are here to advocate for public schools and their teachers who are constantly demeaned and attacked by the school privatizers. Mille grazie forever.
Joe, this is my job. The psychic income is enormous.
Congratulations Diane and thank you for being the force for good that you always are. You are a lifeline of information and support for public school teachers like me all across the country. Were it possible, I’d buy you the biggest best banana split with whatever you want on it!
Thank you! Chocolate, please.