Brookings fires Diane Ravitch after she comes out against Romney's plan to end public education
Ravitch is a treasure. And this is why Brookings clearly is not a liberal (or even a non-partisan or centrist) organization.
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Diane Ravitch is one of the more fascinating figures in Our National Political Pageant. Once an education-reform enthusiast of the first water, she's spent the last couple of years shouting from whateever soapbox she can find that the education "reform" complex is a home for free-market opportunists who never much liked public education in the first place, wet-eyed charlatans pretending to care about "the kids," rich fools, and other folks who wouldn't last 15 minutes in an actual classroom. (I'm paraphrasing a bit here.) Now, it seems, the "liberal" Brookings Institute has cut her loose, perhaps for heresy:
My first thought was that Russ might be responding to my blog lacerating Mitt Romney's education plan in the New York Review of Books. It went online that very morning, about four hours before I got Russ's email. Russ is an adviser to the Romney campaign on education issues. Would he react that quickly? Then I remembered that I had written two other pieces critical of Romney on my own blog, the first appearing on May 25.