[lbo-talk] The rape of education continues

[Carrol Cox]

That bill is a deliberate attack on the working conditions, pay, and job 
security of all public emplouyees. I say all because the  attack on 
teachers is just the beginning.  Keep morality out of it. See the review 
of the '70s book that Michael Yates cited a week or so ago. This is just 
a continuation of an attack that began decades ago. One landmark of the 
ongoing attack was a WSJ editorial in the mid-80s calling postal workers 
the "last subsidized middle class wage." The attack on public employees, 
particularly teachers, if successful, will provide the grounds for 
another round of reductions in all wages. _Wages, Price and Profit_, 
particularly the last chapter, has never been more timely. Down. Down. 
Down. Wake up, Wojtek.

Carrol

  6/1/2011 9:20 AM, Wojtek S wrote:
> Chuck: "In other words they engage in a pseudo-science sounding
> justifications i.e. they are lying. "
>
> [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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