Eduwonkette was an initially
anonymous blog written by
education researcher Jennifer Jennings. It was originally published independently, but was “quickly” picked up by
Education Week where it now appears.
Gothamist
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called the blog "a regular irritant to the Dept. of Education and the Bloomberg administration."
"Eduwonkette" told an interviewer for
The New York Sun
''The New York Sun'' is an American online newspaper published in Manhattan; from 2002 to 2008 it was a daily newspaper distributed in New York City. It debuted on April 16, 2002, adopting the name, motto, and masthead of the earlier New York ...
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."
Historian of education
Diane Ravitch called Eduwonkette's work "brilliant."
Others 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.
The blog broke stories that were later picked up by the press.
In August 2008, a story in
New York magazine
''New York'' is an American biweekly magazine concerned with life, culture, politics, and style generally, and with a particular emphasis on New York City. Founded by Milton Glaser and Clay Felker in 1968 as a competitor to ''The New Yorker'', ...
revealed Eduwonkette to be Jennings, then a sociology graduate student at
Columbia University
Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...
. On January 26, 2009, she announced that she was "hanging up her cape" to join the sociology department at
New York University
New York University (NYU) is a private research university in New York City. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded by a group of New Yorkers led by then-Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin.
In 1832, the ...
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External links
eduwonkette
American educational websites
Anonymous bloggers
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