Ed Johnson is an adherent of the philosophy of W. Edwards Deming, who wrote and spoke about the superiority of Improvement over disruptive change. Ed lives in Atlanta, where the school board and its superintendent believe that they must shock the system, privatize, impose constant disruption. As he shows in the chart below, their approach (the so-called “portfolio model”) has made matters worse. He announces here that he is running for a seat on the board. Wouldn’t that be wonderful to have a critic of disruption on a board now dominated by Ex-TFA know-it-all’s?
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Reform the Reform
Turn around the turnaround!
Disrupt the disruption!
Best advice that we have found:
Reform the reform!
Turn around the turnaround!
Calm the storm!
Best advice that we have found:
Reform the reform!
Sounds like a good teachers strike chant.
We need more people that believe in public education as a matter of civic responsibility. We desperately need those that cannot or will not be bought and sold. We need people solutions, not fake market based disruption that ultimately lead to opportunism and monetization of a public institution.
” Mr. Gates is dragging public education into yet another experiment without having essential knowledge of what is required.” Gates continuously imposes his failed market based agenda on communities of color despite their protests. People are tired of Gates, his agenda and his wealth. Educational improvement takes investment and real professional engagement. There are no miracle quick fixes.
” Mr. Gates is dragging public education into yet another experiment without having essential knowledge of what is required”
The lack of knowledge is not even the biggest problem.
It’s the lack of permission from the people he is doing experiments on.
The Nuremberg code was supposed to ban experimentation on humans without consent.
The fact that Gates is STILL experimenting on children is an indictment not only of Gates but also of the school officials who allow this stuff to go on.
These people should be brought up on charges for violating the Nuremberg code.
Let’s not forget the puppet politicians that create laws that give free market frauds access to public money and students.
He must be smart because he is rich.
when “experimenting” is attached, always, to “profiting” — his experiments always demand the repeat purchase of tech product
Given the importance of numerology to Education Reform, I and my research team here at the nonprofit BS Psychometrics have been developing a new, more accurate method of measuring school achievement, which has always been fraught with error, as Duane Swacker will explain to you. It’s a complex process and well above most people’s heads, but it boils down to this: We start with the mean family income divided by 1,000 and multiply this by 3x +y, where x is the number of red-haired children in the school and y is the number of children who are not red-haired, divided the birth date of my maternal grandmother (the bMG constant), 324, where 3 is the month and 24 is the day. This provides the QWASP, which is then added to the school’s average score on the state exam and divided by 2, resulting in the raw score, which we then subject to analysis to provide whatever scaled score the state wants to see this carnival season. The result, of course, is actionable data that one can use to determine whether a school should be subject to the state put your right foot in, put your right foot out, shake it, shake it, and turn it all about process (the PRFIPRFOSISITIALAP). For more information, please send a check for 28 million dollars to the following address in the Caymans, as my salary has grown considerably since I went into this business.
Remember our motto here at BS Educational Psychometrics: DATA IS DATA, or It’s a Number, So It Can’t Be Wrong!
We’re sorry, but the raw score to scaled score conversion is a proprietary (and–state department officials–flexible!) algorithm and cannot be shared at this time. For more information, contact our Executive V.P. for Investor Obfuscation, Telmeno Lyes (TFA, ’93).
Sadly, you’re not too far off what is happening.
I have always liked NPR/Fox News reporter Mara Liarson’s name
Ah, yes, Psycho-metricks -aka (Norman) Batesian analysis
“The Hokey Mathy”
You put your cut score in
You take your cut score out
You put your cut score in
Then you shake it all about
You do the Hokey Mathy
And you turn yourself around
That’s what it’s all about!
From A Damthology of Deform(Volume 1, page 10 of 59)
http://damthology.blogspot.com/
“Cutting to the Quick”
Let’s cut to the quick,
The cut-score is slick
Purporting to pick
The “best” with a trick
It’s set after test
At tester’s behest
To pass just the “best”
And fail all the rest
“Cut and Dry”
Set the cut core high at first
To make it seem they’re dumb
Move the cut score down in bursts
To make it seem we’ve won
Good ones that entertain and make us think!
HAAAA! So, I stole this from the master?
Stealing is, ofc, kinda what we Ed Reformers do. From taxpayers, from kids. Dollars, time devotes to humane education. . . .
cxs: Given the importance of numerology to Education Reform, I and my research team here at the nonprofit BS Psychometrics have been developing a new, more accurate method of measuring school achievement, for such measurement has always been fraught with error, as Duane Swacker will explain to you.
divided by the birth date