Diane Ravitch LIVE w/Bob McChesney - callers welcome - Today @2pm EDT

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1. Anything interesting?

Most people quoted Ravitch before because she was all gung-ho for tests and accountability, charters and the way reform was done under NCLB.

Those who quoted her didn't care about her. Just that she was supporting them.

She's honest enough to evaluate data, unless 95% of education gurus and profs. So she changed her mind. Good for her. The kind of thing that compels respect. But her position before was also based on data and only compelled respect from one side, those she agreed with, not those against NCLB.

Now all those against tests and accountability, charters and the way reform was done under NCLB are quoting her in exactly the same way she was quoted before. To the extent she supports them, she's right. But they don't respect her because she plays honest with the data. She's just a convenient prop.

Hard to find much said about what she is in favor of. What little I've seen in the MSM isn't something that I suspect most DUers would like.