This Week In Education: Reform: Smearing Ravitch Will Likely Blow Up In Reformers' Faces

This Week In Education: Reform: Smearing Ravitch Will Likely Blow Up In Reformers' Faces

Reform: Smearing Ravitch Will Likely Blow Up In Reformers' Faces

by Alexander Russo

How much do Michelle Rhee, Joel Klein, and Geoff Canada get paid for their appearances at various conferences and events, by whom -- and where are these payments disclosed to those who are listening and to the public? How much did Steve Brill get paid to write his book and who was it who first suggested to him that he should look into Diane Ravitch's speaking fees? These are some of the questions that come to mind in light of the attacks on Diane Ravitch in Brill's book that are the focus of Whitney Tilson's emailings this morning (see below). I have issues with Ravitch -- earlier this year she demanded to have her blurb removed from the back of my book over my my expressing