And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. I am pleased to be joined by diane rav itch, a former assistant the education secretary under bush 41. Ten years ago, she published a scathing critique of the standardized testing system she once supported in programs like no child left behind. Since then, shes become a defender of Public Schools. I am honored to have Diane Ravitch on this program. How are you holding up so far . Im glad to be with you. How are you holding up so far . I went paragliding the other day, im holding up really well. Youre paragliding, obama is water surfing, how can you be so calm at a moment like this . Im not calm, i hate whats going on. I theres a full scale frontal attack on our Public School system. Its an outrage, close to 90 of the children in this country go to Public Education and Public Education is the bedrock of our democracy, doors open to all. Taking in kids who are english language learners, kids with disabilities. Kids who are t
And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. I am pleased to be joined by diane rav itch, a former assistant the education secretary under bush 41. Ten years ago, she published a scathing critique of the standardized testing system she once supported in programs like no child left behind. Since then, shes become a defender of Public Schools. I am honored to have Diane Ravitch on this program. How are you holding up so far . Im glad to be with you. How are you holding up so far . I went paragliding the other day, im holding up really well. Youre paragliding, obama is water surfing, how can you be so calm at a moment like this . Im not calm, i hate whats going on. I theres a full scale frontal attack on our Public School system. Its an outrage, close to 90 of the children in this country go to Public Education and Public Education is the bedrock of our democracy, doors open to all. Taking in kids who are english language learners, kids with disabilities. Kids who are t
Weather service, more than 50 Million People are in the path. Its already dropped several inches of snow from delware to new york, but the main storm hasnt even arrived yet. When it does in the next few hours, forecasters say some places could see snow falling at a rate of an inch every 15 minutes. And thats going to go on for hours. We have been tracking the radar on the big wall here. Going to hit from new jersey all the way up to maine really, and with all those big cities in between. The low pressure trough is going to move offshore. See the moisture out over the atlantic. When the low moves over here, all of this gets pushed back to land and thats when the bottom falls out of the clouds in new york city the mayor ordered streets closed to everybody except emergency workers starting 11 00 tonight. New york and new jersey declared states16 of emergency. Schools in philly sent kids home. Theyre going to be closed in new york tomorrow and here theyre warping the entire Transportation
i m afraid i have bad news for you. my second question is this. do 11 at a time. they have to be very careful about what they study and the depth, the tendency of the study. i just wanted to what extent do you feel you are vulnerable now to these types of archives in the future. do you feel they might be vulnerable to a potential blacklist? i have more bad news for you. it was of course very bad when i was there. i think all the good historical scholarship is a little bit hit and miss. if you already know the answer to the questions you have there s no point in carrying out the research. if you can have the material that allows you to answer these questions, no point in doing it either. so, i think as a historian one is always attuned to the discovery of interesting enriched metro that allows one to ask interesting questions. at the keyboard really is that i also thought for a while that long, that allows the