Did partisan politics 'terminate' doyenne?
26 July 2012
By Jon Marcus
Speculation links Diane Ravitch's criticism of Romney with thinktank exit. Jon Marcus writes
US politics has become so mean-spirited and polarised that not even the esoteric world of education policy scholarship appears to be safe.
So when Diane Ravitch, a high-profile research professor at New York University, was dismissed from her unpaid position as a fellow of the Brookings Institution thinktank after seven years, speculation quickly arose that her criticism of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney was to blame.
Professor Ravitch described Mr Romney's education proposals as "a rehash of Republican education ideas" in a long contribution to The New York Review of Books blog. Just four hours after the blog was posted, she received an email from the Washington thinktank's director of