Comments on: Worth hearing and reading http://toped.svefoundation.org/2010/03/09/worth-hearing-and-reading/ Analysis, opinion and ruminations on California education policy Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:57:59 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Reader http://toped.svefoundation.org/2010/03/09/worth-hearing-and-reading/comment-page-1/#comment-7158 Reader Thu, 11 Mar 2010 05:20:36 +0000 http://educatedguess.org/blog/?p=1464#comment-7158 Not sure that she burned and detonated. As she tells it, they urged her to stay and argue with them. New York Times: "Finally, she recalled, "I told everybody at a dinner meeting at Koret that I was going to resign, and they all said, ‘Come on, stay — we need somebody to argue with us.” Dr. Ravitch stayed on for a time, but left both organizations last spring." http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/03/education/03ravitch.html Not sure that she burned and detonated. As she tells it, they urged her to stay and argue with them. New York Times: “Finally, she recalled, “I told everybody at a dinner meeting at Koret that I was going to resign, and they all said, ‘Come on, stay — we need somebody to argue with us.” Dr. Ravitch stayed on for a time, but left both organizations last spring.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/03/education/03ravitch.html

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]]> By: CarolineSF http://toped.svefoundation.org/2010/03/09/worth-hearing-and-reading/comment-page-1/#comment-7085 CarolineSF Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:24:28 +0000 http://educatedguess.org/blog/?p=1464#comment-7085 I've been following the reaction to Ravitch's book closely, and it actually sounds to me like her right-wing ex-comrades are voicing respect for her. ... As for those organizations backing Obama, as well as Paul Peterson, does it seem likely that they're all getting funding from members of the Gates/Broad/Walton Billionaire Boys Club, the backbone of the charter/privatization/test-mania-fueling/teacher-demonizing/public-school-crushing movement? I’ve been following the reaction to Ravitch’s book closely, and it actually sounds to me like her right-wing ex-comrades are voicing respect for her. … As for those organizations backing Obama, as well as Paul Peterson, does it seem likely that they’re all getting funding from members of the Gates/Broad/Walton Billionaire Boys Club, the backbone of the charter/privatization/test-mania-fueling/teacher-demonizing/public-school-crushing movement?

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]]> By: John Fensterwald http://toped.svefoundation.org/2010/03/09/worth-hearing-and-reading/comment-page-1/#comment-7081 John Fensterwald Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:46:29 +0000 http://educatedguess.org/blog/?p=1464#comment-7081 Thanks for the update. Looks like she burned and detonated the bridge on the way out. Thanks for the update. Looks like she burned and detonated the bridge on the way out.

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]]> By: Ze'ev Wurman http://toped.svefoundation.org/2010/03/09/worth-hearing-and-reading/comment-page-1/#comment-7068 Ze'ev Wurman Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:35:50 +0000 http://educatedguess.org/blog/?p=1464#comment-7068 "Peterson and Ravitch serve together on Hoover’s Koret Task Force on K-12 Education." "Served" is the right tense. Ravitch left Koret Task Force couple of months back. “Peterson and Ravitch serve together on Hoover’s Koret Task Force on K-12 Education.”

“Served” is the right tense. Ravitch left Koret Task Force couple of months back.

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