Latest News and Comment from Education

Monday, August 27, 2012

Read These Comments Before CNN Deletes Them « Diane Ravitch's blog

Read These Comments Before CNN Deletes Them « Diane Ravitch's blog:


Read These Comments Before CNN Deletes Them

As readers of this blog know, CNN posted Randi Kaye’s August 18 interview with me a week after it aired.
I heard there were about 35 comments, and they were suddenly deleted.
People started posting comments again, possibly 20 or so, and then they too were deleted.
People went back for a third round and posted the following comments.
A reader (Teresa H from Oregon) copied the entire batch of them, on the off chance that they might also disappear.  (I copied and added the last three.)
Isn’t this ridiculous?
Why is the web editor at CNN deleting your comments?
Other readers said that none of the comments after Michelle Rhee’s interview had been deleted.
Here are the ones still on the website at this writing:
Here are all the comments posted there now…just in case they go missing again:
*************************************************************
Dan Boyle
After watching this video, I am dismayed that Ms. Kaye would not be willing to listen to both sides of the issue. She clearly had an agenda in this interview Ms. Ravitch, that public schools are bad and are failing the country. Ms. Ravitch was consistent in her argument about which test scores should be used to measure student


Rick Perry Appoints New Texas Commissioner of Education

Governor Rick Perry has appointed Michael Williams to be the new state Commissioner of Education in Texas.
Mr. Williams is a former general counsel to the Republican Party.
Most recently he served on the commission that regulates the oil and gas industry.
He was born in Midland, Texas, the same town as George W. Bush.
Mr. Williams doesn’t believe


How Not to Build a Teaching Profession in Detroit

Detroit is in turmoil, as reform arrives. Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of teachers don’t know if they have a job.
The reform plan closed a bunch of schools and opened another bunch of schools.
That’s reform.
Open some, close some, see if it works, start over.
Sort of like an old game called 52 Pick-up, where you throw all the cards in the air and see where they land.
This teacher describes what is happening on the ground.




CNN Deleted All Comments on My Interview–Again!

A reader informed me that CNN deleted all comments on Randi Kaye’s interview with me for the second time.
Here is the link if you are inclined to try for a third time to leave a comment:
http://newsroom.blogs.cnn.com/2012/08/24/randi-kaye-speaks-to-former-assistant-secretary-of-education-diane-ravitch-on-the-state-of-our-schools/


Who Might Be Romney’s Education Secretary?

Education Week has an article by the always well-informed Alyson Klein that speculates about Romney’s possible choice for Secretary of Education.
The possibilities include:
Jeb Bush, former Florida governor, who shaped the Romney agenda for privatization of the nation’s schools;
Tom Luna, the state superintendent in Idaho who is known for his allegiance to online corporations and his