more from Ravitch in today's LA Times: The Big Idea -- it's bad education policy One simple solution for our schools? A captivating promise, but a false one. http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-ravitch14-2010mar14,0,2024751.story From: jgray5@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To: regional_school@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [regional_school] Re: Diane Ravitch rethinking? Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 13:14:42 -0500 She is really right on! Jeanne On Mar 4, 2010, at 7:53 AM, bbailey2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:Diane Ravitch has been fighting progressive educators, attacking public education, and promoting standardized testing for 30 years and now she finally gets it and admits she's wrong? See the link below - can this be real? http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/03/education/03ravitch.html?th&emc=th Brian Bailey, Ph.D.Assistant Professor of Adolescence EducationNazareth College4245 East AvenueRochester, NY 14618-3790585-755-7503 On Mar 4, 2010, at 7:46 AM, William Cala <wcala9@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Way to go Elizabeth! http://www.democratandchronicle.com/article/20100303/LOCAL17/3030369/1008/OPINION/Mayoral-control-isn'-t-the-real-problem The blog comments, however, show us that racism is still alive and thriving. Bill _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail: Trusted email with powerful SPAM protection. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/210850553/direct/01/