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Former Oklahoma school chief’s push to end standardized testing not likely to happen oklahomavoice.com/2025/10/10/f...

Former Oklahoma school chief's push to end standardized testing not likely to happen • Oklahoma Voice

Even though I would love to get rid of testing for accountability, as opposed to diagnostic purposes, it’s not going to happen soon.

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dtretired.bsky.social @dtretired.bsky.social · 2d

Jack Hassard: What Happens When You Can't Trust Government Data? dianeravitch.net/2025/10/08/j...

Jack Hassard: What Happens When You Can’t Trust Government Data?

What happens when government data are politicized? What happens when a President fires the professionals who report the data and replace them with his loyalists? Jack Hassard, a retired professor o…

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The Ultimate Debunking of the New Orleans Myth: The Human Toll on Black Students dianeravitch.net/2025/10/08/t...

The Ultimate Debunking of the New Orleans Myth: The Human Toll on Black Students

If you read only one article about what happened to the students, teachers and schools in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, this is the one. Ashana Bigard is a parent of students in New Orleans. …

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Public Education Shaped by 19th Century Dispute tultican.com/2025/10/08/p...

Public Education Shaped by 19th Century Dispute

By Thomas Ultican 10/8/2025 Horace Mann, frequently referred to as the “father of public education”, declared that public education should be nonsectarian. He was responding to a dispute in the Pro…

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The Trump Cabal's "Compact" to Stamp Out Academic Freedom dianeravitch.net/2025/10/08/t...

The Trump Cabal’s “Compact” to Stamp Out Academic Freedom

Our reader Christine Langhoff discovered an excellent analysis of the “compact” that the Trump administration has offered to several universities. A “compact” usually refers…

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dtretired.bsky.social @dtretired.bsky.social · 4d

Julian Vasquez Heilig: The Cultural Significance of Bad Bunny Hosting the NFL Half-Time dianeravitch.net/2025/10/06/j...

Julian Vasquez Heilig: The Cultural Significance of Bad Bunny Hosting the NFL Half-Time

In the post at 9 a.m. today, two scholars of racism and equity explained that Trump’s scrubbing of museums, national parks, and other federal facilities is an attempt to capture control of th…

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Trump Adminstration Asks MIT to Abandon Academic Freedom to Secure Funding dianeravitch.net/2025/10/06/t...

Trump Adminstration Asks MIT to Abandon Academic Freedom to Secure Funding

The new conditions for federal funding the Trump administration offered to MIT put the school in a no-win situation, people on the Cambridge campus and throughout academia said Frida…

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dtretired.bsky.social @dtretired.bsky.social · 4d

Jim McGoodwin: Our branches of government, political system no longer work as intended tulsaworld.com/opinion/colu...

Jim McGoodwin: Our branches of government, political system no longer work as intended

There’s a reason why we’re seeing all this violence and feeling that our nation is on the brink of collapse: our American democracy has died.

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dtretired.bsky.social @dtretired.bsky.social · 5d

The Man Behind Trump’s Push for an All-Powerful Presidency www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/u...

The Man Behind Trump’s Push for an All-Powerful Presidency

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dtretired.bsky.social @dtretired.bsky.social · 5d

Journalists at 3 Newspapers Quit Over Edits to a Charlie Kirk Story www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/u...

Journalists at 3 Newspapers Quit Over Edits to a Charlie Kirk Story

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dtretired.bsky.social @dtretired.bsky.social · 5d

No, Trump Can't Send in the Military Whenever He Wishes dianeravitch.net/2025/10/05/n...

No, Trump Can’t Send in the Military Whenever He Wishes

Someday, somehow, there will be another President of the United States, and his name won’t be Trump. That future President might well be a Democrat. That President might be in a position to e…

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dtretired.bsky.social @dtretired.bsky.social · 6d

October 3, 2025
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October 3, 2025

Although President Donald J.

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dtretired.bsky.social @dtretired.bsky.social · 7d

Nikole Hannah-Jones: Charlie Kirk and the Mainstreaming of His Hateful Ideology dianeravitch.net/2025/10/03/n...

Nikole Hannah-Jones: Charlie Kirk and the Mainstreaming of His Hateful Ideology

Nikole Hannah-Jones has had her share of controversy. Born in Iowa to a mixed-race couple, she attended desegregated public schools, graduated from Notre Dame and received a masters in journalism f…

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dtretired.bsky.social @dtretired.bsky.social · 7d

The First Review of My New Book! dianeravitch.net/2025/10/03/t...

The First Review of My New Book!

Veteran journalist Eleanor Bader published the very first review of my new book! It’s a great review! The official publication date is October 20, but books are now in print and available. My…

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Nikole Hannah-Jones: Charlie Kirk and the Mainstreaming of His Hateful Ideology dianeravitch.net/2025/10/03/n...

Nikole Hannah-Jones: Charlie Kirk and the Mainstreaming of His Hateful Ideology

Nikole Hannah-Jones has had her share of controversy. Born in Iowa to a mixed-race couple, she attended desegregated public schools, graduated from Notre Dame and received a masters in journalism f…

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dtretired.bsky.social @dtretired.bsky.social · 7d

What Jane Goodall Taught Us: The Wisdom We Need Now dianeravitch.net/2025/10/03/w...

What Jane Goodall Taught Us: The Wisdom We Need Now

Olivia Troye describes the inspiration we all should draw from the life of Jane Goodall. Olivia worked in former Vice President Pence’s office as the Homeland Security and Counterterrorism ad…

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dtretired.bsky.social @dtretired.bsky.social · 9d

Paul Offit: Is RFK Jr. an Alien? dianeravitch.net/2025/10/01/p...

Paul Offit: Is RFK Jr. an Alien?

Paul Offit, MD., is a doctor, a real one. His blog is titled “Beyond the Noise.” Its author is a pediatric infectious diseases physician, author, FDA advisor, grandfather, and co-invent…

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dtretired.bsky.social @dtretired.bsky.social · 9d

September 30, 2025
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September 30, 2025

Last Thursday, September 25, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth suddenly announced he was calling about 800 of the nation’s top military generals and admirals, along with their top enlisted advisors, to m...

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dtretired.bsky.social @dtretired.bsky.social · 9d

Hegseth and Trump Are Greeted with Stony Silence by Military Leaders dianeravitch.net/2025/10/01/h...

Hegseth and Trump Are Greeted with Stony Silence by Military Leaders

Pete Hegseth, the Secretary of Defense, summoned hundreds of generals and admirals to an in-person meeting to lecture them. Hegseth spoke to them condescendingly to remind them that he is Secretary…

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dtretired.bsky.social @dtretired.bsky.social · 9d

Trump Administration Plans Ban on All Federal Grants to Harvard...or Are They Close to a Deal? dianeravitch.net/2025/10/01/t...

Trump Administration Plans Ban on All Federal Grants to Harvard…or Are They Close to a Deal?

This is baffling. The Boston Globe reported yesterday that the Trump administration was in the process of “debarment” of Harvard University, meaning that the nation’s greatest uni…

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dtretired.bsky.social @dtretired.bsky.social · 10d

Peter Greene: The Queen of Charter Schools in Florida dianeravitch.net/2025/09/30/p...

Peter Greene: The Queen of Charter Schools in Florida

Keep your eye on Byron and Erika Donalds in Florida. Byron is running for the governor’s job as the MAGA candidate, while his wife is making a bundle as the queen of charter schools. As presc…

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dtretired.bsky.social @dtretired.bsky.social · 11d

Success Academy Is Opening "No Excuses" Charters in Florida dianeravitch.net/2025/09/29/s...

Success Academy Is Opening “No Excuses” Charters in Florida

Success Academy of New York City helped to write new charter legislation in Florida that made it worth their while to expand their corporate brand to Florida. The big change in the new law is that …

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dtretired.bsky.social @dtretired.bsky.social · 11d

The Debate about Charlie Kirk Being Taken Out of Context cloakinginequity.com/2025/09/29/t...

The Debate about Charlie Kirk Being Taken Out of Context

When Charlie Kirk sparred with Cenk Uygur in front of a live audience in 2018, the clash went viral. Kirk called Uygur out in a way that electrified his supporters but immediately drew backlash fro…

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dtretired.bsky.social @dtretired.bsky.social · 11d

Trump Plans to Award Research Grants to Universities That Endorse His Values dianeravitch.net/2025/09/29/t...

Trump Plans to Award Research Grants to Universities That Endorse His Values

There is no end to the Trump administration’s assault on academic freedom. Particularly poisonous is its withdrawal of billions of dollars for scientific research to punish universities that …

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dtretired.bsky.social @dtretired.bsky.social · 12d

The Debate Style That Propelled Charlie Kirk’s Movement www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

See How Charlie Kirk’s Debate Style Worked

A close read of some of Mr. Kirk’s most viral exchanges shows an approach that was polished and skillful — if not always fair.

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