Bunkum Awards Spotlight Shoddy Education Research
Grand Prize Winner Says Charter Schools Should be Like Cancer
The National Education Policy Center (NEPC), housed at the University of Colorado Boulder, has announced the winners of the 2011 Bunkum Awards – presented for the most compellingly lousy educational research for the past year.
The 2011 Bunkum Grand Prize goes to the Progressive Policy Institute (PPI), which received the “Cancer is Under-Rated Award” for Going Exponential: Growing the Charter School Sector’s Best. In its report, which advocated the rapid expansion of preferred charter schools, PPI compared those charters to viruses and cancers.
PPI says that it “conducted research about when and how exponential growth occurs in the natural world, specifically examining mold, algae, cancer, crystals and viruses. We used these findings…to fuel our thinking about fresh directions for the charter sector.”
“The Progressive Policy Institute deserves our top award for combining a weak analysis, agenda-driven
The 2011 Bunkum Grand Prize goes to the Progressive Policy Institute (PPI), which received the “Cancer is Under-Rated Award” for Going Exponential: Growing the Charter School Sector’s Best. In its report, which advocated the rapid expansion of preferred charter schools, PPI compared those charters to viruses and cancers.
PPI says that it “conducted research about when and how exponential growth occurs in the natural world, specifically examining mold, algae, cancer, crystals and viruses. We used these findings…to fuel our thinking about fresh directions for the charter sector.”
“The Progressive Policy Institute deserves our top award for combining a weak analysis, agenda-driven
