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<B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> C. G. Estabrook <galliher@illinois.edu><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> David Green <davegreen84@yahoo.com><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Cc:</SPAN></B> John W. <jbw292002@gmail.com>; Peace Discuss <peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Fri, April 30, 2010 12:11:40 AM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> Re: [Peace-discuss] Diane Ravitch Revised: A Critique of Contrition<BR></FONT><BR>Uh, I think I'd prefer Woody Allen's Zelig for the characteristic I hope you <BR>have in mind...<BR><BR><BR>On 4/29/10 10:38 PM, David Green wrote:<BR>> John, if Carl weren't the Forrest Gump of this list, you would be. Back then<BR>> she was writing mostly for American Scholar, along the lines of William<BR>> Bennett, Bush 1's education czar. And I particularly enjoy the
insouciantly<BR>> anti-PC "crazy broad," which shouldn't be reserved just for the Schlafflys &<BR>> Coulters, but also for erstwhile liberals like Ravitch. Stupid is as stupid<BR>> does.<BR>><BR>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------<BR>> *From:* John W. <<A href="mailto:jbw292002@gmail.com" ymailto="mailto:jbw292002@gmail.com">jbw292002@gmail.com</A>> *To:* David Green<BR>> <<A href="mailto:davegreen84@yahoo.com" ymailto="mailto:davegreen84@yahoo.com">davegreen84@yahoo.com</A>> *Sent:* Thu, April 29, 2010 8:50:44 PM *Subject:* Re:<BR>> [Peace-discuss] Diane Ravitch Revised: A Critique of Contrition<BR>><BR>> I remember this crazy broad from about 20 years ago. My girlfriend at the<BR>> time was getting a PhD, and she would write responses to Ravitch's ravings in<BR>> academic journals. John Wason<BR>><BR>> On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 8:21 PM, David Green <<A
href="mailto:davegreen84@yahoo.com" ymailto="mailto:davegreen84@yahoo.com">davegreen84@yahoo.com</A><BR>> <mailto:<A href="mailto:davegreen84@yahoo.com" ymailto="mailto:davegreen84@yahoo.com">davegreen84@yahoo.com</A>>> wrote:<BR>><BR>> *Diane Ravitch Revised: A Critique of Contrition*<BR>><BR>> * *<BR>><BR>> With the publication of /The Death and Life of the Great American School<BR>> System,/ educational historian and journalist Diane Ravitch has found her way<BR>> not only onto best-seller lists, but into the good graces of some on the left<BR>> for her critical account of neoliberal school reform, and her contrition<BR>> regarding her significant role as a publicist for this three-decade<BR>> disaster-in-the-making. Interviewers like Amy Goodman and Doug Henwood have<BR>> featured her articulate and insider accounts of business model-based reform,<BR>> No Child Left Behind, charter schools,
standardized testing, and the<BR>> insidious role of private foundations (that continue to handsomely support<BR>> her)...<BR></DIV></DIV></div><br>
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