Two of our favorite educators, Deborah Meier and Diane Ravitch, will be blogging together on an Education Week blog, Bridging Differences, dedicated to their dialogue. It starts with interesting personal biographies. Check it out.
And while you are at it, you should read what both women have to say, in different pieces, on the role of teacher unions in education — Deborah Meier’s “On Unions and Education,” from the Winter 2004 issue of Dissent, and Diane Ravitch’s “Why Teacher Unions Are Good for Teachers and the Public,” in the Winter 2006-2007 issue of the AFT’s American Educator.
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1 redhog
· Feb 27, 2007 at 10:52 am
There are many scholars and academicians, historians and reseachers with impeccable credentials and unimpeachable integrity whose contributions to the educational literature fill many shelves. They may be brilliant but none are great in the sense of immortal artisitic greatness: except Diane Ravitch. When I was a kid I foolishly thought that Toscanini was the only conductor of sublime rank; of course I grew up to recognize many more. Years ago I discovered Ravitch’s contrinutions and viewed her as I had done Toscanini. This time there will be no change. I’m convinced that her name will be the only one remembered when 50-100 years hence people reflect upon the public school systems of America, provided there still are any.