Crazy Crawfish is a blogger who worked in the Louisiana Department of Education. He cares a lot about accurate data. He noticed, as did other researchers in Louisiana, that all the historical data for the past ten years disappeared overnight and have been replaced by press releases about the glorious success of Governor Jindal’s marketing slogan, which the Jindal team calls “Louisiana Believes.”
Don’t miss this one. It is called “Louisiana Believes Anything.”
Diane Ravitch's blog 
“I thought it would be ironic to create an empty useless “library” on the Department’s website. In this new “Library”, families can find information about what their old libraries used to contain as well as a coupon for a free smoothie with the purchase of any LouisianaBelievesAnything John White action figure, complete with real sleeves that can be rolled up to wrist, elbow or even ripped off for an effect I call the “Rambo.”
You have to click the link above and read it all. Great stuff!
Thanks Dr. Ravitch and Crazy Crawfish.
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How is “disappearing” historical data even legal? Shouldn’t there be lawsuits over this?
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We are talking about Louisiana here! Our governor doesn’t let minor things like the law stop him. He just threatens the legislators until they change the laws. Most of them don’t even need threats. They follow along like lemmings. Only concerned about keeping oilfield companies rich and keeping the poor hungry so they will work for the oil companies. No education required.
Thanks Crazy Crawfish and Diane for keeping us up to date!
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Mary Matalin is on Morning Joe right now praising Jindal. She dropped in a line about how Louisiana is “number one” in terms of educational “gains”. No one even blinked. The topic is how Jindal is such a great leader because he says the Republicans can’t be the “stupid party”. I used to think comparisons to the book 1984 were overwrought. I’m reconsidering.
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Thanks for dropping by, guys! Glad you enjoyed it. LDE sent out a similiar press release earlier, but I felt it was a little less than honest, so i fixed it.
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Writing “Louisiana Believes” with a green crayon fixes everything.
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Literally laughing out loud!!! That’s the Great State of Louisiana!
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Thanks for fixing things. Quote for you:
H.L. Mencken (in The American Mercury, April 1924):
[the aim of public education is not] to fill the young of the species with knowledge
and awaken their intelligence. . . . Nothing could be further from the truth.
The aim . . . is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe
level, to breed and train a standardized citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.
You can add some other aims yourself
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