The secret’s out. Eduwonkette, the masked heroine who rights wrongs armed only with data and panache, has revealed her true identlty. And she’s not who you think she is, not matter who you thought she was. She’s Jennifer Jennings, Columbia doctoral student in sociology. Tonight, she’s outing herself and ending one of the edusphere’s most entertaining guessing games. Ms. Jennings says she began the blog last year because she was “bad at crocheting and tired of watching the Yankees lose.” She clearly had no idea it would attract so much attention.
Why am I dropping the mask now? Over the past few months, two things happened. First, people started to wrongly finger other educational researchers as eduwonkette. Given the New York City Department of Education’s affection for my data analysis, some researchers rightfully worried that a case of mistaken identity could have negative implications for their relationships with the DOE. Second, others have started to figure out my true identity. It was a matter of time until someone else made my identity known, and I ultimately decided to introduce myself on my own terms.
Eduwonkette’s coming out party includes a nice little feature in New York Magazine. So now those that have taken issue with the Eduwonkette because of perceived bias, will have to deal wth all those stubborn facts she throws around. I’ll miss the mask, but I’ll continue reading Jennifer’s brilliant blog.
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