[Peace-discuss] Diane Ravitch Revised: A Critique of Contrition

[C. G. Estabrook]

Uh, I think I'd prefer Woody Allen's Zelig for the characteristic I hope you 
have in mind...


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

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