The Adjunct Assistant’s Critique

The odds against a professor of education—full professor, associate professor, assistant professor, or, as in the case of Diane Ravitch, adjunct assistant professor—writing well must be something like one thousand to one, and Miss Ravitch does not beat them.

She detects in another writer an unwillingness to “randomize” inequality, and her idea of an applause line is horribly familiar to anyone who has survived the draughty readings of congressional candidates. “No reasonable person,” she writes without a smile, “can fail to acknowledge the inequities of past and present and the human devastation caused by prejudice and discrimination.”

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The odds against a professor of education—full professor, associate professor, assistant professor, or, as in the case of Diane Ravitch, adjunct assistant professor—writing well must be something like one thousand to one, and Miss Ravitch does not beat them.

She detects in another writer an unwillingness to “randomize” inequality, and her idea of an applause line is horribly familiar to anyone who has survived the draughty readings of congressional candidates. “No reasonable person,” she writes without a smile, “can fail to acknowledge the inequities of past and present and the human devastation caused by prejudice and discrimination.”