tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21978939.post1664309086536504601..comments2024-02-17T09:15:28.288-05:00Comments on Norm's Notes: Howler on Ravitched notes onlinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15018047869059226777noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21978939.post-16048158203705726652010-04-26T19:30:56.406-04:002010-04-26T19:30:56.406-04:00I hope, by now, that Howler has read the actual bo...I hope, by now, that Howler has read the actual book. Diane Ravitch didn't recant any of her core attitudes about education - she's still the child of a stuffy fifties education in a Houston suburb, is still pleased with that, and anchors her views in it. Bless her heart, though: she is currently LEADING the struggle to save public education from a predatory business takover by merciless profiteers and billionaire boys.<br /><br />Save your ideological purity for happier times. Everybody, get off your high horse and make yourself useful. Read that book, read Darling-Hammond's latest (gutsy, politically acute, ideologically rousing, but without ENOUGH guts to call out Broad, Gates, or Duncan by name!). We are about to bring down Goliath, I think. Get busy, and gather some rocks, at least.chemtchrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08983388475654325999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21978939.post-10645285981922835822010-04-25T09:52:29.254-04:002010-04-25T09:52:29.254-04:00I think a big contributor to this mess was the lon...I think a big contributor to this mess was the longtime left/progressive disdain for public schools as mindless institutions designed to turn out brainwashed factory drones. The cool thing to do in my peacenik-lefty hometown --Mill Valley, Calif. -- was to send kids to alternative hippie private schools. SO the left/liberal leaders abandoned public schools and certainly weren't around to fight for them. So who was left to stand up for them?carolinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08127336930949752636noreply@blogger.com