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Diane Ravitch
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Diane Ravitch's personal blog at dianeravitch.net covers politics. Since 2012, 16 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN commenters link Diane Ravitch's blog as a source for criticism of Bill Gates's education funding, Common Core, charter schools and school vouchers. No comment judges the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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What Hacker News says?
:-/ Yeah, deunionizing would be great.... Private school teachers get paid much less than public [1], with the bonus of being fired any time. Instead, when school districts attempt to bust the teachers union, they do it in order to funnel money to charter schools, often religious [2]. These charter schools have selective admissions, and often won't keep children with any sort of difficulty [3], which artificially ra…
Comment linking /2014/02/26/breaking-news-new-data-show-high-expulsion-rates-from-charter-schools-in-chicago/
on “14-Year-Old Boy Arrested for Bringing Homemade Clock to School”Submitted North Carolina teacher's resignation letter as a story · 367 points
HN discussionNot everyone is as confident in Bill Gates's magical abilities as he is. http://dianeravitch.net/2013/01/10/how-bill-gates-wasted-50-... http://seattletimes.com/html/dannywestneat/2014437975_danny0...
Comment linking /2013/01/10/how-bill-gates-wasted-50-million/
on “Bill Gates: My Plan to Fix The World's Biggest Problems”Submitted The Shame of Swedish Education: J’Accuse as a story · 140 points
HN discussionI could well be wrong on the details, but note that Bill Gates and his foundation funding enabled Common Core to meet RttP goals, in a way that https://dianeravitch.net/2014/06/08/the-inside-story-of-how-... describes as a "coup". Curriculum standards only work if people follow the standards, which for the US means tests, along with the artificial high-stakes I mentioned.
Comment linking /2014/06/08/the-inside-story-of-how-bill-gates-bought-the-common-core-standards/
on “MacBASIC”Submitted How to Analyze False Claims about Charter Schools as a story · 41 points
HN discussionSo your argument and basis for calling vouchers a Scam is because the dollar amount for the voucher is not granular enough? Maybe the dollar allocation could be better, but it doesn't make vouchers a scam. If you'd like more confirmation in your beliefs may I direct you here... https://dianeravitch.net/ IMO, vouchers have a place in school choice and I would prefer that they are used to give disabled, disadvantaged,…
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on “The voucher scam: Are we too mathematically illiterate to notice”Submitted Michael Hiltzik: Is There Really a STEM Shortage? as a story · 2 points
HN discussion"charter schools are created to help the poor, not the rich" This is in theory, many charter schools are not following this principle, see for example: http://dianeravitch.net/2013/01/14/do-affluent-white-neighbo... http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-11-15/taxpayers-billed-fo...
Comment linking /2013/01/14/do-affluent-white-neighborhoods-need-charter-schools/
on “How to Analyze False Claims about Charter Schools”Submitted Teachers in Lee, MA, Return Merit Pay (funded by Gates Foundation) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Teachers of Garfield High School in Seattle Say No [to administering test] as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Internet Crisis: Why Isn’t Access Free Like Radio? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Thought Experiment on US Public School Education (2014) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bernie Sanders high school yearbook photo as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted CNN’s “Chicagoland” Was Fake Documentary, An Infomercial to Glorify Rahm as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Statistics gone wrong: $50 million. 3 years. Still no clue. as a story · 1 points
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