[lbo-talk] NCLB bites the University?

[Gail Brock]

Actually, the bureaucrat is more likely to make only one third of your salary.  That's why the objectives have to be assessable, so someone with considerably less training can process them.  It's the politicians who are doing this.  Don't get misled into thinking that other government workers are the enemy. 

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Joanna <123hop at comcast.net> on Tue, April 13, 2010 8:46:09 PMwrites:

Jeff writes

"I was in our meeting yesterday about a new gen ed, and we just
can't have any "objectives" that are not assessable, so this means they have
to be framed in terms that render them "assessable," and this actually
alters the content and direction of the goals. I can't see what about it is
*not* pernicious."

Not just "assessable" but assessable by a bureaucrat and in terms of what a bureaucrat understands: more, faster, bigger, etc.  And because the bureaucrat decides what's assessable, he gets to make three times your salary.

It is not possible to go along with this. It just isn't.

Joanna

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