In Which I Cite My Sources in an Attempt to Deflate the Hot Air from the Teacher Quality Debate
There is so much hot air in education reform, and it's extremely frustrating when one's arguments and supporting research are misconstrued.
RiShawn Biddle writes the following:
A penchant among far too many education writers who embrace the Poverty Myth of Education is to oversimplify the debate over the role of education in stemming the long-term effects of poverty. First, they argue that school reformers proclaim that education is the sole solution for economic development in poor communities — even though no one ever says this. Then they argue that education can’t possibly be either the long-term or short-term solution for poverty — and find some flimsy data or examples to back it up.
Dana Goldstein of the Nation weakly pulled this funny trick earlier this month in her review of Steven Brill’s Class Warfare, trotting out the famed Coleman study to argue that high-quality teachers cannot help
