Media: Top 10 Education Experts to Follow on Twitter

TakePart's new "Top 10 Education Experts to Follow on Twitter" includes @DianeRavitch (#1 with 31,000+ followers) as "honest, has an open mind and knows her stuff," @Larryferlazzo (#5 with 17,000 followers) as ""particularly good, and little old me @alexanderrusso (#8 with 6,600 followers). 

There's also Michelle Rhee, Melinda Gates, Debbie Meier, Arne Duncan, Stephen Sawchuk, Randi Weingarten, and a few others.   

Anyone else who should have beeen on the list?    Anyone on there who shouldn't have been?  Strange to be talking about this on a blog, but I know that not everyone lives on Twitter (yet).  

 

Comments

[Bill]

More because he rarely tweets than for my admitted personal disagreements with his policies, I would remove Arne Duncan from the list and replace him with either Nancy Flanagan or José Vilson.

[Tom]

Please consider your criteria for following people on Twitter.Just because someone has a reputation as an educator, that doesn't necessarily make them a good source on Twitter. Large followings are only an indication not a lock on quality, or we would all be following Aston Kutcher for sage advise.Some People that you mention have limited interaction on Twitter. For best recommendations observe the education hashtags, and chats to see who is interacting and being Retweeted. Watch for who is ReTweeted more often. Observe if those people are retweeting others as well because that would indicate some interaction and not just putting out their own stuff.Lists are only a snapshot and influence flows up and down.Thanks for the follow list!

[Patrick]

Should "education policy" experts. There's only one active classroom teacher on the list, everyone else is a politician, activist or journalist. I think this list is a lot more useful since it's almost all active educators. http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/top-15-educators-on-twitter.shtml