Diane Ravitch: “For the past dozen years, ill-advised federal policies have rained down on students, teachers, principals and schools.”

We’re hosting a TPM Prime (sub. req.) live chat with Ravitch tomorrow at noon ET. Also joining us: Rachael Brown, manager of teacher retention and recognition for District of Columbia Public Schools, and Chad Alderman, associate partner at Bellwether Education Partners. Should be a good discussion.

If you’re a Prime member and have been asking about ‘credit subscriptions’, we finally plan to start selling them this week. If you don’t remember what they are, please give me a moment to explain what they are and why we think they’re so important to our readers and to TPM as an organization.

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