Thoughts on the recent events in education reform, by our blog Poet:
“The Maestro”
(A brief historical recap for those who have already forgotten — or perhaps never knew)
Chetty played the VAMdolin
At Nobel-chasing speed
Arne played the basket-rim
And Rhee, she played the rheed
Coleman played his Core-o-net
Eva played the lyre
Billy Gates played tete-a-tete
With Duncan and with higher
Sanders* beat his cattle drum
Devalue added model
Pseudo-science weighted sum
Mathturbated twaddle
John King played the slide VAMbone
But Maestro was Obama
Who hired the band and set the tone
For current grizzly drama
*William Sanders, who tweaked his algorithm for modeling cattle growth to model the intellectual growth of students and evaluate teachers.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
You would imagine that Sanders would be a laughing stock.
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Yes, I would, but then again we’re talking economics here which by definition is a laughing stock of a supposedly social “sciences” (sic).
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What, no mention of Bush and NCLB?
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Love this. Though its a bit unfair to blame only Obama–he did, after all, jump on THE George W’s NCLB train
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I like it very much. Is it an imitation of a particular poem?
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Brilliant!
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favorite line, “Coleman played his Core-o-net”
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SDP,
Have you been composing on diverse or topical subjects your entire life? Always a pleasure to read you, in verse or prose!
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Great as usual, & such a pleasure to read you again!
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I can hear bongos beating in the background. Remembering the history so the FauxPro’s don’t distort it.
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