[WS:] Oh, c'mon, Chuck, stop behaving like a cornered dog biting anything that moves. They sound like typical liberal do gooders - wasting their money but basically not an enemy.
wojtek
On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 5:40 PM, Chuck Grimes <c123grimes at att.net> wrote:
>
> A link to another school reform bullshit? Whenever I read this
> kind of work, I look up the sponsoring agency. In the above case it was The
> Joyce Foundation. So I wiki-ed them.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joyce_Foundation
>
> http://www.joycefdn.org/content.cfm/advanceillinoisperformancecounts?pagep=programs%2Deducation
>
> ``In mid-April the Illinois State Senate passed Senate Bill 7, commonly
> referred to as Performance Counts, putting in place a series of changes that
> align with the Joyce Foundation's education program priorities. Joyce
> grantee Advance Illinois played a key role in the passage of the bill,
> educating lawmakers and advancing the education reform agenda.
>
> The landmark legislation is the fruit of months of collaboration among
> lawmakers, teachers' unions, the Illinois State Board of Education, and
> education reform groups. Policy changes included in the Bill are:
>
> Performance included as a factor when making hiringlayoff, and dismissal
> decisions
>
> Ensuring tenure rewards effective teachers with strong performance records
>
> Changing the nature of union negotiations to place students' well-being at
> the center''
>
> Now the above is the domesticated pig DLC version of the great wild pig
> version I listened to this morning on Doug's show from Terry Moe:
>
> ``Terry M. Moe
> senior fellow
> member of the k-12 education task force
>
> Terry M. Moe is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, a member of the
> Institution's Koret Task Force on K-12 education, and the William Bennett
> Munro Professor of political science at Stanford University.
>
> He is an expert on educational policy, U.S. political institutions, and
> organization theory. His current research projects are concerned with school
> choice, public bureaucracy, and the presidency.''
>
> Doug's show was definitely worth listening too, because it gives you insight
> into how these pigs think. Their greatest vulnerability is found when they
> try
> to justify their ideas with empirical studies and data that show this or
> that. It often turns out that either the study didn't show what they said,
> or the study was gerry-rigged by some other think tank ideologue to show
> what it shows. This is even bad
> academic work, since the latter studies come from non-peer reviewed work
> that isn't published in a regular social science journals.
>
> In other words they engage in a pseudo-science sounding justifications i.e.
> they are lying.
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