In need of a renaissance
By Diane Ravitch/American Educator
In the fall of 2007, I reluctantly decided to have my office repainted. It was inconvenient. I work at home, on the top floor of an early 19th-century brownstone in Brooklyn. Not only did I have to stop working for three weeks, but I had the additional burden of packing up and removing everything in my office. I had to relocate 50 boxes of books and files to other rooms in the house until the painting job was complete. (more...)