Jan Resseger Reflects on the Public Education Forum

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1. Máté Wierdl says:

   December 17, 2019 at 8:10 am

   Many of the commenters at youtube were unhappy that Yang was not invited.

   It’s actually very encouraging that there were 138K viewers of the video.

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   • GregB says:

     December 17, 2019 at 10:17 am

     I’m not great at math, but based on my meager skills, that accounts for .008% of the American voting population. If that’s considered to be very encouraging, it’s no wonder that education will play absolutely no role in any national election ever.

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     • Máté Wierdl says:

       December 17, 2019 at 12:12 pm

       The November MSNBC democratic debate video was watched by 1 million people.

       I remark that the educational forum was of a much higher quality. Better format.

     • GregB says:

       December 17, 2019 at 9:51 pm

       If a forum airs in the forest, does it make a sound?

     • GregB says:

       December 17, 2019 at 9:53 pm

       One million=.6 percent of registered voters.

     • dianeravitch says:

       December 17, 2019 at 10:55 pm

       The election of 2000 was decided by 570 votes in Florida.
       The election of 2016 was decided by 70,000 votes.

     • GregB says:

       December 18, 2019 at 11:39 pm

       Point taken.

2. retiredbutmissthekids says:

   December 17, 2019 at 5:00 pm

   Mate: You make good points. Others to be considered: the Ed. Forum was not televised; the Ed. Forum was 6 (I believe) hours, on a Saturday before gift-buying holidays, & the debates are much shorter, at night & televised, all factors which may be held into accounting 138K vs. 1 million viewers. I missed some of it due to the “lunch break” (went out to do some holiday errands & didn’t get back quite in time to catch Bernie {I kept trying to view the order in advance, but the only one MSNBC would give was that Bennet was 1st}; so–I’ll go back & watch the parts/candidates I’d missed; many people are probably doing just that so, of course, those #s not factored into total viewership.)

   &, yes, Ed. Forum easily better formatted than the debates.

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   • dianeravitch says:

     December 17, 2019 at 5:19 pm

     You can watch the forum if you missed it.

     I thought the moderators were disappointing, especially Ellis’s repetitive misinterpretation of NAEP scores, since she thinks that only 1/3 of US students can read. She doesn’t understand that NAEP proficiency represents mastery, not grade level or pass/fail.

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