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Friday, December 21, 2012

Diane in the Evening 12-21-12 Diane Ravitch's blog

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The Baltimore Sun Joins the Honor Roll

So many news media have thoughtlessly or knowingly jumped on the bandwagon of corporate reform that it comes as a shock to encounter one saying simple truths.
Te Baltimore Sun wrote, in response to the massacre of innocent children and educators in Newtown, that it’s time to stop the vilification of our nation’s teachers and principals.
Today the Sun joins our honor roll of Merican education for writing in support of our nation’s educators in this time of sadness.
They wrote (read the link for the full, excellent editorial)
“We don’t know how many lives were saved by the alert and brave actions of the faculty and staff at Sandy Hook, 



LISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH 12-21-12 Diane Ravitch's blog

coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 2 hours ago
Diane Ravitch's blog: [image: Click on picture to Listen to Diane Ravitch] Katie Osgood Defends Karen Lewis by dianerav Karen Lewis spoke up on my behalf when a TFA officer denounced my post “The Hero Teachers of Newtown”) as “reprehensible. Lewis then became the object of attacks from outraged bloggers and tweeters saying that she literally accused TFA of murder. Lewis said no such thing. This was a fine example of the dark art of twisting words. Katie Osgood, who teaches children in a psychiatric hospital in Chicago and has her own blog, here defends Lewis: “Lewis was not spea... more »