Corporate Education Reform's Slime Machine Goes After NRC Report
Hoover Institute economist, Eric Hanushek, is one of the chief think tank hacks for corporate education reform and the testing-industrial complex. His work consistently reminds us of the definition of "ecomomist" as "an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday did not happen today." As a perfect example of this characterization, Hanushek much prefers to use empirical data to speculate his way toward a shared acceptance of his plutocratic patrons' preconceived notions by building a statistical house of cards inside a hypothesized future that we can only appreciate in the end for its entertainment value, rather than its factual veracity.
For example, econometric fantasizing has come to be Hanushek's stock-in-trade, as is evidenced a number of
For example, econometric fantasizing has come to be Hanushek's stock-in-trade, as is evidenced a number of