EduShyster: Wall St Is Only Thinking About the Kids

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1. neanderthal100 says:

   May 27, 2013 at 9:38 am

   KIDS = TESTS= $$$$$$ FOR WALL STREET

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2. jean sanders says:

   May 27, 2013 at 9:46 am

   Literature describing how “teachers are pricey” and teachers are overpaid (cf. Richwine) is coming out from Harvard ; the Kennedy school of government was not set up to distribute this type of material but there have been shifts in policy…. and funds are coming in from the corporate world whereas educational commissioners in the states have very little discretionary money and they buy into this “stuff”. In 2002 Harvard’s Kennedy School home of “Education Next” formed an advisory committee, under the chairmanship of Bruce Kovner, founder of Caxton Associates, to counsel the program on potential research topics, ways of communicating to a broader audience, and other ideas for improving the program. The committee has since met on an annual basis and has been instrumental in assisting the program achieve its core missions.
   Jeb Bush
   Committee Chairman
   Foundation for Excellence in Education

   The question is “who thinks they own education”? The funding sources identified on this blog by Diane Ravitch can be followed through various posts and oh what a tangled web they weave.
   Education Next started sending out “Richwine” articles on how teachers are overpaid etc long before the recent debacle on his dissertation from Harvard. (disclaimer; yes I went to 3 schools across the river from Harvard)

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3. Michael Fiorillo says:

   May 27, 2013 at 10:25 am

   Well, kids are data; data is a commodity; therefore… of course it’s all about the kids.

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4. M. Schneider says:

   May 27, 2013 at 12:48 pm

   I challenge any “top-heavy” privatization exec to live on my annual salary in my state, Louisiana. I make $58k a year, and I am “higher priced” with my 18 full time years in the classroom ( I have a couple of part time years that don’t count) and my PhD

   Let one of those Harvard Kennedy School students write an ethnographic qualitative dissertation based upon their own experiences living on my salary in my state for one year, and let them include interviews with other teachers who make less than I do because they have less experience and fewer degrees. And let this student write about the effect of having the state portion of teacher salary frozen for four years while the joke of a superintendent consistently builds surpluses into LDOE funding.

   Now there would be a dissertation worth reading.

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5. George Buzzetti says:

   May 27, 2013 at 1:38 pm

   Schneider, do you really think they are prepared to write a dissertation all things considered as to how professional they are with 5 weeks of training? Personally, I would like to see them deal with reality for just one second. I think that is why they leave so rapidly as the reality sinks in they abandon the “Kids.” After all we are just here to polish our resume for the real work of making as much as I can. But I need to pay off some of those loans and polish my resume for the real future work. We used to call these people “Educated Idiots.” These were magna cum laude, PHD graduates from Cal Tech, MIT and such who could not even read the blueprints they drew. Saw it happen a lot of times. Amazing.

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