[lbo-talk] Doug Henwood at Left Business Observer provides an expansive response to Matthews' “attempted heart-tugging” over the damage being done to students

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Doug Henwood  at Left Business Observer provides an expansive response
to Matthews' “attempted heart-tugging” over the damage being done to
students. The studies Matthews quotes, Henwood points out, are from
Canada and Belgium, and one of them was a six-month long work
stoppage. He quotes Michèle Belot and Dinand Webbink, the authors of
that study, who are far less interested in fearmongering than Matthews
is:

Strikes do not occur randomly and are likely to be correlated with
other factors affecting educational outcomes, thereby compromising the
identification of a causal effect. A before–after comparison might be
biased by other unobserved factors that changed after the strikes.

http://www.alternet.org/labor/5-liberal-pundits-repeating-right-wing-teacher-bashing-talking-points?page=0%2C1