On Dec 6, 2009, at 6:25 PM, Joanna wrote:
> You may be interested in listening to this five and one-half minute
> podcast featuring Diane Ravitch, a highly regarded historian of
> education, as well as an educational policy analyst and research
> professor at New York University's Steinhardt School of Education.
> She was also Assistant Secretary of Education under Bush #1.
She's a very interesting story - former right-winger who's turned on their privatization/charter/testing educational agenda. She also decided at roughly the same time that she's a lesbian, which may or may not have something to do with it.
Doug