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Eduwonkette is a blog written by an anonymous education researcher. It was originally published independently, but was “quickly” picked up by Education Week where it now appears. [1]
"Eduwonkette" told an interviewer for the New York Sun that she preserves her anonymity because “"Universities expect us to devote our time exclusively to research, and blogging is a hard sell in that environment," she said. "It's still a new enough activity that universities don't quite know how to appraise its value." [2]
Historian of education Diane Ravitch calls Eduwonkette's work "brilliant."[3]
Others have criticized her for maintaining anonymity on the grounds that the identities, and thereby the biases, of participants in public debates on education ought to be known. [4]
The blog breaks stories that are later picked u-p by the press. [5] [6] [7]