The motives and methods of Mayor Michael Bloomberg and his Schools Chancellor Joel Klein on education issues are mysterious to me. In Tuesday's NY Post, Katheryn Wylde, the head of the NYC Partnership wrote an intensely swiftboatish personal attack on Educational Historian and frequent Bloomberg critic Diane Ravitch. You should read it yourself, but the gist is that Ravitch is a flip-flopper. In my view the article comes out of the Rove playbook and is remarkably un-nuanced -- it's deceptive about the facts

As it transpires, the real attacker of Ms. Ravitch was Mayor Bloomberg's Department of Education; Ms. Wylde only their tool. The NY Sun's education reporter Elizabeth Green reveals that the "content" of Ms.Wylde's attack on Ms Ravitch was actually concocted at tax-payer expense at the Tweed Courthouse. What are these guys, thinking, drinking?  read more »