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What Right Does the US Department of Education Have to “Monitor” Diane Ravitch ?
August 18, 2013
Dr. Diane Ravitch: a dangerous woman
I usually avoid the Huffington Post at all costs and will continue to do so until they begin to actually pay the writers whose labor is making its owners very rich, but I make an exception this morning due to information in an article that came to me in a sideways fashion via a fine post by
Paul Thomas. In his post, Thomas eviscerates an adhominen attack on Diane Ravitch by one
Peter Cunningham, former Assistant Secretary for Communications and Outreach, U.S. Department of Education under by Arne Duncan. The catalyst of Cunningham’s sophomoric attack is the soon to be published, eagerly anticipated and apparently just as eagerly feared new treatise,
Reign of Error. Cunningham’s words are nothing but a preemptive attack on Ravitch’a person, which Thomas handily displays as utterly unfounded and barely meriting a response.
What should merit a response, however, is what Cunningham’s first sentence reveals about how the U.S. government apparently now routinely monitors its critics and
