A blogger took a close look at the latest report from DC on proficiency rates. As Matt Di Carlo and others have repeatedly shown, proficiency rates are notoriously easy to manipulate by moving the cut scores and other tricks.
But in DC, one fact is undeniable
: the rates went up in Affluentt districts and down in poor ones.

“…the rates went up in Affluentt districts and down in poor ones.’
Is there a problem with that? 😉
(For those who will not realize it: This is sarcasm.)
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Fudging figures is the #1 way to deceive the gullible public! They never look deeper than a headline, and swallow the propaganda with pseudo-sagacity, as if they personally had investigated the trumped up stats. Hard to have an intelligent discussion about reality when you have on one side; Rhee, Jeb, Gates and HUGE corporations, all of which have agendas that make their professed, sincere interest
in education crass hypocrisy! The willfully ignorant public has cheered the attacks on teachers, unions and the vital importance of public education; would appear that now,
they too have a vested interest in the wreckers, due to their allegiance to the cabal’s
tenets. One day, they may awake from their apathy to find they were part of the ruination of a once solid system!
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Move That Bus!
Whoa, that doesn’t look so good.
What happened……that remodel didn’t go so well.
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There is only one way to deal with those who lie and rob education like Rhee, Broad, Gates et al and that is to crush them with the facts of their failure. Why am I still the only one talking about the crusher and that is both the Credo Stanford Study and when combined with the DOE OIG report on the total lack of accountability of charter schools in Florida, Arizona and California. Charter schools, or privatization and corporatization, are a total failure especially when you also use the “Correction Factor” to actually compare charter schools against regular public schools straight across. You have to correct for the differences. When you do this charter schools are big losers and total failures. Facts are the weapon of destruction to their ideological destruction. Proper messaging is what it is all about and messaging which they cannot deny.
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It’s like the reasons for the Iraq war. Once you prove they were wrong or lied they make up a different reason. They are in a constant state of spin.
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Thank you De De. The game is to expose them to the general public for the frauds they are and how sociopathic they are in reality. Do not listen to them only look at what they do or as my friends grandfather taught him “I hear real good, but I see a whole lot better.”
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I forgot to add “We have to set the agenda, not them.”
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