{"id":4144,"date":"2011-11-29T20:46:15","date_gmt":"2011-11-30T00:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=4144"},"modified":"2011-11-30T10:31:34","modified_gmt":"2011-11-30T14:31:34","slug":"old-fashioned-alt-academic-careers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=4144","title":{"rendered":"Old-fashioned alt-academic careers: Diane Ravitch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Take an alternative route from academic training, acquire elder-statecraft status, say what you want, get written up. That&#8217;s pretty much what happened to Diane Ravitch, as told either by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtoncitypaper.com\/articles\/41083\/diane-ravitch-the-anti-rhee\/full\/\">Dana Goldstein<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tnr.com\/article\/politics\/magazine\/97765\/diane-ravitch-education-reform?passthru=YjkzM2EyNmQ3ZDllNmUzYTAzZGQ0OTE4NGJmMWM1Zjc\">Kevin Carey<\/a> this year. ((See the responses to Carey&#8217;s recent piece by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.danagoldstein.net\/dana_goldstein\/2011\/11\/thoughts-on-kevin-careys-profile-of-diane-ravitch-history-and-ideology.html\">Goldstein<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.educationgadfly.net\/flypaper\/2011\/11\/what-kevin-carey-didnt-say-about-diane-ravitch-but-should-have\/\">Mike Petrilli<\/a>. I don&#8217;t know the extent to which Goldstein is right that sexism played the majority part in Ravitch&#8217;s marginalization from academically-housed historians of education, but I&#8217;ve wondered the same thing.)) I&#8217;ve written about Ravitch&#8217;s scholarship, but I think it&#8217;s important to note that her career after the Ph.D. is now what key figures in the American Historical Association are trying to legitimize: graduate students not only should have Plan B, but graduate programs in history should be careful to make non-professorial jobs &#8220;Plan B.&#8221; Plenty of recent doctorates in history and related fields <a href=\"http:\/\/tanyaroth.wordpress.com\/2011\/11\/27\/greetings-from-the-second-school-term\/\">are happily ignoring the lousy job market in the field<\/a>. Time for the rest of us to get some postgraduate realism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Take an alternative route from academic training, acquire elder-statecraft status, say what you want, get written up. That&#8217;s pretty much what happened to Diane Ravitch, as told either by Dana Goldstein or Kevin Carey this year. ((See the responses to Carey&#8217;s recent piece by Goldstein and Mike Petrilli. I don&#8217;t know the extent to which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16,11,14,21,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountability-frankenstein","category-education-policy","category-history","category-politics","category-the-academic-life"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-14Q","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4144"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4147,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4144\/revisions\/4147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}