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10 posts published by dianeravitch during July 2025| Diane Ravitch's blog
10 posts published by dianeravitch during July 2025| Diane Ravitch's blog
The U.S. Senate just passed Trump’s massive budget bill, which renews tax cuts for the rich and makes deep cuts to Medicaid, about $1 trillion. Three Republican Senators voted against it: Ran…| Diane Ravitch's blog
Ezra Klein has a wildly popular podcast. My grandson, a college freshman, tells me that Ezra Klein is like a deity to many in his generation. In this episode, he talks with Kara Swisher, who has be…| Diane Ravitch's blog
10 posts published by dianeravitch during June 2025| Diane Ravitch's blog
The conservative, Murdoch–owned Wall Street Journal editorialized that Trump’s immigration plan is in deep trouble, and rightly so. His goal (Stephen Miller’s) is to deport 11 mil…| Diane Ravitch's blog
Trump wants to close the U.S. Department of Education. He thinks the Department of Education has been indoctrinating Americans to accept DEI and “radical gender ideology.” He’s wr…| Diane Ravitch's blog
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 “diversi…| Diane Ravitch's blog
The big story in the mass media and blogs over the past two days was the way Trump answered a question in an appearance in New York City about whether he would do anything to make child care afford…| Diane Ravitch's blog
10 posts published by dianeravitch during August 2024| Diane Ravitch's blog
Celine Dion sang at the closing ceremony on the opening day of the Olympics in Paris. Standing within the Eiffel Tower, surrounded by fireworks, Dion sang “Hymn to Love,” written by the great Frenc…| Diane Ravitch's blog
10 posts published by dianeravitch during July 2024| Diane Ravitch's blog
Steve Dyer, former legislator and perennial budget hawk, tracks wasteful spending on charter schools in Ohio in this post. Ohio is throwing away billions on charters and vouchers, at the expense of…| Diane Ravitch's blog
The usual understanding of democracy is “one man [person], one vote.” No matter how rich or powerful you are, your vote counts the same as that of the poorest person in the same district. We know f…| Diane Ravitch's blog
