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I like to go over to Diane Ravitch's blog to see what the former Bush administration official and private school professor and her acolytes are saying.
I'm usually well rewarded for my visits with uninformed entries and comments -- and angry responses when I provide a reality check or different point of view.
The lack of reflection and intellectual honesty over there can be pretty stunning.
Take, for example, Ravitch's June 30 post touting a Guardian story about a school closing in Chicago, which Ravitch uses as a jumping-off point to decry the lack of adequate coverage of the closings and budget cuts in Chicago from mainstream media (Chicago Schools Get Good Coverage in UK, Not in Chicago):
"Why is it that a magazine in the U.K. portrays the plight of some 40,000 mostly minority children in Chicago