Jersey Jazzman pulls together a host of reformer ideas in this post and shows that none of them has any evidence behind it.
How can public schools, which take everyone, compete with and match the braggadocio of charter schools, which promise that every student will graduate and go to a four-year college, even if it isn’t true?
Why do policymakers continue to push merit pay, even though it has failed again and again for nearly a century?
Why the conservative love affair with vouchers, when we now have evidence from Milwaukee, Cleveland, and D.C. that vouchers drain money from public schools without producing better education?
Jersey Jazzman asks for proof. Before accepting any of the reformer policies, reformers should show the evidence? Indignation is not evidence. Nor are promises of miraculous results.
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Reblogged this on Crazy Normal – the Classroom Exposé and commented:
Why the conservative love affair with vouchers, when we now have evidence from Milwaukee, Cleveland, and D.C. that vouchers drain money from public schools without producing a better education for our children?
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Jersey Jazzman can always be counted on the “blind them with science,” not corporate, blind science. I am thankful that there are few people left that will get unfiltered information out to the public.
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YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SHOW THE PROOF!!!!!!!!!!!11
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A sure sign of crackpots and other pseudo-scientists is that they will not provide evidence — and get indignant when you ask for it.
They hide their actions behind a veil of secrecy because what they are doing can not stand the light of day.
eg: the purveyors of VAM will not allow anyone to see the computer code for and raw data output by the models because it would expose what they are doing as a fraud.
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“Double Standards”
Why must students show their steps
Under Common Core?
While ed officials just quote schleps
And rarely any more?
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Show your steps to what you do, it really isn’t odd,
Unless of course all that you do is just a great big fraud!
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As Amos Tversky said, “It’s frightening to think that you might not know something, but more frightening to think that, by and large, the world is run by people who have faith that they know exactly what is going on.” Just written a book :From School Delusion to Design” on this. I’m afraid delusion and poor judgement and managing from unfounded experience are rife.
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This is new in Ohio. It is an organization to “train administrators” – Please check it out.
http://www.brightohio.org/
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“Recent pension reforms enacted by the Ohio General Assembly are triggering the retirements of scores of school administrators across Ohio, creating a unique opportunity for Ohio to attract the best and the brightest as school principals.”
I don’t know: is “amazingly arrogant” a requirement to work in ed reform?
Are they incapable of treating people with respect?
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Bright Ohio, funded by Ohio tax dollars, promoted by Fordham, which mediattrackers reports, received over $2.5 mil. from Gates. (State, Bill Gates, Business Groups Push Common Core in Ohio, Aug.4, 2014, Jason Hart)
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#marrymejerseyjazzman *sigh*
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Jersey–did you see that Floyd Mike Miles shut down his consulting business (Focal Point, but called Fecal Point here in Dallas).
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Does anyone remember writing lab reports in college where you started with a history of the previous research that led to the hypothesis your experiment proposed to test? No one turned us loose to dream up bogus experiments that had no research base to support the utility of our ideas. JerseyJ has nailed it. How come these guys get to experiment on our kids with nothing more than a world view that promotes their ideology to back it up?
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The test-and-punish reformers (Arne’s Army) did not need data, or research, or evidence because their plan had absolutely nothing to do with improving public education. Every time this critical question resurfaces – they remain understandably silent.
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Please don’t insult a great golfer, humanitarian, and gentleman by even vaguely associating our secretary of educational disruption with the great Arnold Palmer. Duncan’s group would better be termed Arne’s Vandals.
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The question posed by Jerseyman is the same one posed by economist Paul Krugman. The answer is ” policy that is implemented, based on myths, enrich the wealthy.”
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An interesting question since the famous Common Core standards require that our youngest writers learn at a very early age that they must present evidence to support what they say. Is that only a caveat for standardized tests or is it real-world??
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No evidence is required for any education policy.
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Magic-Elixir-No-Evidence-by-Susan-Lee-Schwartz-130312-433.html
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