As longtime readers may recall, I started blogging in April 2012. At that time, I posted five times a day. Some days I posted even more frequently. Recently, I have reduced daily posts to three, with occasional increases for breaking news.
Starting today, I will post whatever I choose. Once, twice, three times. Or more. Or not at all.
Maybe nothing will change.
I don’t want to feel compelled to find something to fill a hole in the schedule.
As of this writing, the blog has had 40.8 million page views.
I have written more than 29,000 posts.
You have submitted nearly one million comments.
I will continue to read every comment.
Keep reading and commenting.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Your blog is required reading!
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Agree!
And thank you, Diane. 🙏
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Total respect for whatever you choose to do and gratitude for all that you have done. Know that you are highly valued, loved and appreciated. What a lift you are to teachers. There is no way you can know how much so. I can tell you that I’m concerned that you are irreplaceable…but I’m so happy you have spread a message with a voice that speaks with unassailable authority against those who try to buy the truth. Be well, Diane.
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“unassailable authority,” said about a person with a huge heart and brain – there can never be enough gratitude for Diane’s contribution to public education
Roughly 41,000,000 and counting
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agreed!
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The most important thing, is to, know, why we write, is it to, express our thoughts, sharing our ideas with others who may find us, or,is it, for, something else, and, once y find the purpose of why blogging had been established, the numbers no longer mattered, because, you now have, your purpose of why you’re blogging, and that would, hopefully be, enough to, drive you to, keep on, blogging.
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You’re amazing. And an inspiration.
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As I have said before, way back when I was in a community college classroom (and a union official) I read everything you wrote and disagreed with most of it. Now, I think you are a national treasure and however much longer you continue carrying on the fight will be treasured, by me for certain.
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I really look forward to your well chosen blog posts.
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I think you have earned the right to spend each day as you please.
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Amen
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I wasn’t at the blog in the beginning. However, in the years since I’ve been here, I’ve noted that Diane’s choice of posts get better and better (imho)- it’s amazing.
The Rob Rogers’s post, wow, I’ve forwarded it widely.
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Thank you for your many years of blogging. Regardless of how frequently – or infrequently – you blog, any post you choose to write will be worth reading. You have long ago earned the privilege of not having to write to fill a hole in a schedule.
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Indeed.
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As always, Diane, thanks for all you do on behalf of public education, students, teachers, administrators, support staff, and all of us who passionately believe that public education is the foundation of democracy and civil discourse!
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We will read when and whatever you continue to post! Thank you for your diligence defending public education!
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Diane – it has always amazed me the amount of reading you do to bring us the volumes of important information on a daily basis. Thank you for sifting through and posting the valuable bits we may not see! You do whatever works for you! I for one, will be here to read it.
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Thank you, Diane, for your salon, and much love to you and yours.
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May you continue to find joy and fulfillment in composing your posts that we find thought-provoking and valuable.
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Love the reference to Salon. Perfect image.
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xoxox Diane herself has used this term for what she does.
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We are very fortunate to have the Diane Ravitch Blog with so many posts and comments each day, even on weekends and holidays. It represents a prodigious effort on Diane’s part orchestrating all the articles and comments……and on top of that giving such great support for public schools and their teachers. A thousand thanks!
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I am so haaaaaaaaappy to have grown to know you through your blog. I have always been reluctant to say how I feel about things, but I love this family of bloggers and it is my morning ritual. As I was out monitoring my squirrels and hummingbirds, I thought, “Boy, Diane sure writes a lot. I wonder how she just keeps reading and writing?” I appreciate you, your intelligence, and thoughts on many things. It feels great to be able to release many of my untold “tales from the trenches.” Blessings to you always.
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Anything you write, I will read. You have helped to create a community of people who may never meet in person but who can sit down and chat most days without hyperventilating. So much to think about!
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Fyi Peter Greene’s 8-28 Curmudgucation post re being a retired teacher at start of school year is a rewarding read.
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It interesting that no matter how old you are, that end-of-August feeling hits you, whether you remember it as a student or teacher. Back to school! Joyful anxiety!
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The traditional start of a new school year in September is a great time to think about changing things up. Or not, as you put it.
Hope you can enjoy autumn to the fullest, Diane.
With Love, -John O.
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Thank you for all you do, Diane! I have learned so much from this blog and your insights.
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Thanks for many years of opening hearts and minds.
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This Smoky Corner & Internet Cafe
Lifelong do-gooders and ornery curmudgecators.
Honest in the extreme is the entry code.
The sylph-like grace and concern of so many.
The nymph-like optimism that undergirds the whole place.
The gnome-like wisdom that comes from being awake.
Sages and divines may take their leave.
In here it’s feet on the ground and caution in the eyes.
In here we all get to be catchers in the rye.
In here fools stubbornly scratch out profanity etched on walls
In here is full of Holden Caulfields roaming the halls
Everyone is a little mad in this smoky internet cafe
One eye open can see the blind-loving kingdom rarely strays
No shadows on our walls, we see just fine and we rant and we rave.
All love for the barmaid, the patrons, the proprietress supreme
Long live this place where we can all feel a little more sane.
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That’s just magnificent, Mr. Alfera!!! Made my month, reading this. So, so artful! Brilliant. Beautiful. Thoughtful. Moving.
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Tom, beautiful.
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Your post is a wonderful way to close out this day. Thanks,Tom.
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This blog has introduced me to some folk I would never have encountered without it. Also, not a few ideas that were new to me. What a rich gift to your readers, to give ideas and personalities. We live in a world that prizes things you buy, but there is another world of gift culture, where priceless things are given for free. This blog is one of those gifts.
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yes!
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Sounds good.
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I’m with you no matter what!
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During my thirty years in the classroom (1975 – 2005), I suspected something was going on, a plot to destroy the public schools because of all the crazy things us teachers were being forced to do against our better judgement, but argued with myself that I was being paranoid.
I thought, “Who could be that monstrous, that greedy, that power hungry?”
Several years after I left teaching, Anchee Min, my wife at the time, came home and told me about an interview with Diane Ravitch she’d heard while listening to the radio in her car. Anchee said, you have to listen to what she has to say.
I did.
Years later, I have learned through Diane Ravitch’s books and blog that what I thought was paranoia, was true. There are people out there that monstrous, that greedy, that power hungry.
Thank you!
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Not a week goes by that doesn’t include in a conversation “You should read Diane Ravitch’s blog about…” And that same week includes copying and pasting ( or “slack-ing”) a quote or a link for a Diane blog to one of many advocacy groups… or like this week assigning the first two chapters of Death and Life of the Great American School System to teach THE turning point marking the end of the post-Brown to pre-NCLB era and the cautionary tales that we read daily.
So one Diane blog a week or many – I will think about and “construct meaning” of each out of necessity, curiosity, and service to what’s right and good for kids and the country (that may sound “schmaltzy” – but it’s real)
Thank you, Diane
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I am so grateful for everything you do and write to keep me (and millions of others) so well informed! Thank you!
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Diane, you are invaluable. So glad that you post and that you just are.
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Your posts would be more effective if you posted one a day and included whatever you wanted to tell us, maybe starting with a brief introduction saying what you are going to write about. I have read your books when I was in academia, and your work was always well written and well organized. With all the mass of information with which we are hammered, such a format would be easier for me to absorb. Your work is essential.
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Thank you.
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Thank you Dianne. I have enjoyed participating.
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Yaaaayyy!
So glad to know you will have more time to spend out in that new kayak, Diane!
Echoing Lloyd, when you spoke at the Boston Teachers Union in 2010, my feelings of paranoia dropped away and my advocacy for my beloved public schools kicked into high gear. Your blog is like teaching itself; dropping a rock into a pond and never knowing how far out the ripples reach.
Love you.
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Thanks, Christine! It’s a beautiful day on Long Island and I’m going out on my kayak!
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xoxoxoxoxox
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xoxoxoxox
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24 hour cable news fills space.
Dianeravitch.net fills my mind.
Deeper discussions are good.
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This is and has long been an invaluable service. Thank you.
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Thanks you for all that you do!
Mike
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