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Stephen Downes

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Alexander Russo needs to get out more. "Part of me wishes that we had someone like Finke among the education bloggers - obsessive, hard-working, fearless in the face of all the money and power of those she's covering. Part of me's just as glad we don't." I can name half a dozen fearless and angry bloggers in education. Nobody Russo reads, though. He confuses "visceral and foul-mouthed" with sharp and critical. Tom Hoffman, for example, has been tearing the 'common core' initiative to shreds - not a peep from Russo, who pretends the criticism doesn't exist. Doug Noon, whose Borderland is sharp and insightful? Nary a mention. Bud Hunt, whose sharply worded post on blocking is up to 43 comments? Doesn't exist in Russo's world. And I haven't even hit the angry bloggers, people like Jim Groom or Leigh Blackall and the rest. I wouldn't care, but Russo writes in This Week in Education, a web front for a print publication, and purports to 'cover' the field - but what we get is nothing remotely resembling coverage, just a handful of his friends, and no explanation of why this would be so.

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