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Monday, June 6, 2011

This Week In Education: Five Best Blogs: Pro / Con On Ravitch, NYC NAACP

This Week In Education: Five Best Blogs: Pro / Con On Ravitch, NYC NAACP

Five Best Blogs: Pro / Con On Ravitch, NYC NAACP

Photo_3471_landscape_largeDuncan's Alter boy spearheads personal assault on Ravitch Mike Klonsky: What an upside-down picture of the ed-world Duncan and his apparatchiks have created, a world where liberals and pro-union activists are the enemy and teacher-bashing T-baggers like Daniels are warmly embraced... An off-base critique of Ravitch Education Next: Ravitch has recently insinuated her name into the papers in part by using fiery, scornful language to argue that education “reformers,” with their penchant for testing, are obliterating America’s system of public schools, which, she always misleadingly implies and occasionally incorrectly adduces, were previously wonderful, enlightening places... The NAACP enters an unholy alliance Stanley Crouch: At no point in the past would one have expected the NAACP to try to halt the creation of schools that have helped so many black children succeed. As Canada