Tuesday, March 16, 2010

More Ravitch

In the Education Week blog she writes with Deborah Meier, Diane Ravitch responds to the recent Newsweek hatchet job on teaching and the teaching profession: "The article is a flamboyant example of outright hostility to teachers, to the organizations that represent them, and to public education itself." Read the rest here.

2 comments:

Michael Moore said...

Thanks for starting this back up. A couple of links. The first is a youtube for your entertainment:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IMQStCsO0g>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IMQStCsO0g

Next an article in the Boston Globe a couple of days ago:
You will recognize one of the authors:
http://www.boston.com/news/education/k_12/mcas/articles/2010/03/13/a_step_down_federal_education_standards/

Bill Teale said...

For those in the Chicago area, Diane Ravitch will be speaking at the University of Illinois at Chicago on April 9 if you'd like to hear her in person.