
Diane Ravitch's Blog
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Diane Ravitch's Blog is a site to discuss better education for all. Brooklyn resident Diane Ravitch is an education historian and best-selling author.
Diane Ravitch's Blog
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Do you have 10-15 minutes to read a very important article? It contains a lot of alarming details about the 19-year-old computer whiz on Elon Musk’s DOGE team. Brian Krebs, a former Washington Post reporter, writes a blog about Internet security called Krebs on Security. In this awesome post, he describes the links of Edward ..read more
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Haley Bull of Scripps News reported yesterday that Trump sent out an order to all 50 states warning that the federal government would cut off funding to any school that teaches about “diversity, equity or inclusion.” She wrote: The Department of Education is warning state education agencies they may lose federal funding if they do ..read more
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It’s Black History Month. Ignore the fact that this annual tribute to the achievements and culture of African-Americans has been stripped of recognition by the federal government since the inauguration of the worst President in our history. Trump thinks that the nation was greatest when it was ruled by straight white men, and everyone else ..read more
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I am posting a large excerpt from Olga Lautman’s Tyranny Tracker. Christine Langhoff shares this link with us. I urge you to subscribe. I have given up trying to keep track of Trump’s destructive orders, but Olga Lautman has not. She is a patriot. Trump is not. He is Putin’s puppet. Hillary warned us. Olga ..read more
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Keith Barber posted this point-counterpoint on Medium. Barber is a retired lawyer and lifelong Republican (pre-Trump). He presents the best arguments for tariffs, then explains why none of those claims make sense. Keith writes: A friend sent me a pro-tariff missive a MAGA friend of his shared. My friend wanted to know what I thought of ..read more
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Phillips P. Obrien is a professor of strategic studies at the University of St. Andrew’s in the UK. The title of this article on his blog at Substack is “This is Not Appeasement, It’s Worse.” He begins: In the last few days, the US has made concession after concession to Russia before any formal negotiations ..read more
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Paul Krugman won the Nobel Prize in economics. For nearly 25 years, he wrote a regular column for The New York Times. Now he writes at Substack. He recently wrote about the absurd lies that Elon Musk has told about the massive fraud and waste that his DOGE team has uncovered. If you follow him ..read more
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Yes, Virginia, there are men and women of integrity who defend the rule of law. Yesterday, it was Danielle Sassoon, the acting U.S. Attorney for the Southern district of New York. She resigned rather than drop the case against NYC Mayor Eric Adams. Her devotion to the rule of law was greater than her allegiance ..read more
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Register now for this exciting event! Our featured speaker: GOVERNOR TIM WALZ! We are excited to announce that Minnesota Governor Tim Walz will be a keynote speaker at our conference in Columbus, Ohio, on April 5 and 6. A former high school social studies teacher and a coach, Governor Walz is one of our nation’s greatest public ..read more
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Greg Toppo was the chief education journalist for USA Today. He is now a senior correspondent for The 74, where this story appeared. The DOGE team visited the Institte for Education Sciencesand canceled scores of contracts for education research. It was widely assumed that the studies had some relation to diversity, equity, or inclusion, which ..read more