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DianeRavitch

  1. @rweingarten @Wlecker @rweingarten @julmacstaples Much more money for charters per student than for public schools.
  2. @mrholshoe Yes. Audible came out in January.
  3. @RandyClemens @ajmceachin Children are not commodities, and competition does not produce better education.
  4. @RandyClemens @ajmceachin Some institutions are based on free market consumerism, with winners & losers. Others are not: family, school
  5. @speculatorx The model is teacher & learners. It works elsewhere, why not here? Computer & students? No.
  6. "Death & Life of Great American School System" is #1 in public policy, #1 in social policy on amazon.
  7. @Miabirdbrain23 I withhold judgment until they are given a trial. Somewhere.
  8. Romney gaffes: americansunitedforchange.org/press/releases…
  9. Who or what is Boston Consulting Group? Who is paying for its controversial plans? Why no public review? thenotebook.org/blog/124881/co…
  10. @RobertFerrell @susanoha @plthomasEdD @Larryferlazzo @leoniehaimson Darnit! Just read Dickens and forget this jargon.