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Sunday, July 9, 2017
CURMUDGUCATION: ICYMI: Stuff To Read Edition + Catch up with CURMUDGUCATION
CURMUDGUCATION: ICYMI: Stuff To Read Edition (7/9):
Yeah, I'm short a clever title this week, but I'm not short worthwhile pieces for you to read. Here we go.
On Global Teacher Prize Winner Maggie MacDonnell and What Humility Looks Like
Jose Luis Vilson talks to prize-winner MacDonnell, and we're all a little better for it. This will make you feel a little better about the work.
Utica Charter School Allegedly Required Salary Tithe
How about yet another story about the Gulen charter chain, just in case you think this use of charter schools to funnel US tax dollars into the coffers of an exiled Turkish leader was old news. Nope. Still happening.
KIPP Schools Collected Millions in Unallowable Fees
The folks who run KIPP are millionaires, but the parents of KIPP students still get hit up for what turn out to be probably-illegal contributions. Tell me the part again about how charters do more with less.
Reform Lessons From Skeptical But Not Cynical Veterans
A winner from Larry Cuban
Has The Charter Movement Gone Awry
Apparently the discussion of the new "let's just get rid of charter accountability" book is going to drag on forever. Grab some popcorn.
The Lie; The Reply
I know you'll find this hard to believe, but there's a charter school operator in Ohio who is a big fat liar.
Beware of School Voucher Doublespeak
I'm not sure this is exactly doublespeak, but here's the NEA with an actually-useful explainer for certain voucher terminology
Charter School Refusal To Admit Students Lacking Uniforms Wasn't Its First
A NOLA charter decides that homeless students who don't come in their proper uniforms should be ejected. And they've apparently done it more than once
CBS News Voucher Story
Yes, CBS news manages to actually catch the effect of the DeVosian voucher plan on rural schools.
Mayoral Control and Mayoral Responsibility
New York is looking at, well, the first of those again, and Daniel katz takes a look at the issues involved.
The History of Ed Tech: What Went Wrong
Audrey Watters answers the question. See what you think of her answer.
Chris Christie, The Beach, and Our Leaders' Massive School Funding Hypocrisy
Jersey Jazzman attacks all three topics, and it's worth reading twice.
Why do we think poor people are poor because of their own bad choices?
Tip of the hat to Blue Cereal Education, a look at the psychological theorizing behind why we blame poor people for being poor.
CURMUDGUCATION: ICYMI: Stuff To Read Edition (7/9):
ICYMI: Stuff To Read Edition (7/9)
Yeah, I'm short a clever title this week, but I'm not short worthwhile pieces for you to read. Here we go.
On Global Teacher Prize Winner Maggie MacDonnell and What Humility Looks Like
Jose Luis Vilson talks to prize-winner MacDonnell, and we're all a little better for it. This will make you feel a little better about the work.
Utica Charter School Allegedly Required Salary Tithe
How about yet another story about the Gulen charter chain, just in case you think this use of charter schools to funnel US tax dollars into the coffers of an exiled Turkish leader was old news. Nope. Still happening.
KIPP Schools Collected Millions in Unallowable Fees
The folks who run KIPP are millionaires, but the parents of KIPP students still get hit up for what turn out to be probably-illegal contributions. Tell me the part again about how charters do more with less.
Reform Lessons From Skeptical But Not Cynical Veterans
A winner from Larry Cuban
Has The Charter Movement Gone Awry
Apparently the discussion of the new "let's just get rid of charter accountability" book is going to drag on forever. Grab some popcorn.
The Lie; The Reply
I know you'll find this hard to believe, but there's a charter school operator in Ohio who is a big fat liar.
Beware of School Voucher Doublespeak
I'm not sure this is exactly doublespeak, but here's the NEA with an actually-useful explainer for certain voucher terminology
Charter School Refusal To Admit Students Lacking Uniforms Wasn't Its First
A NOLA charter decides that homeless students who don't come in their proper uniforms should be ejected. And they've apparently done it more than once
CBS News Voucher Story
Yes, CBS news manages to actually catch the effect of the DeVosian voucher plan on rural schools.
Mayoral Control and Mayoral Responsibility
New York is looking at, well, the first of those again, and Daniel katz takes a look at the issues involved.
The History of Ed Tech: What Went Wrong
Audrey Watters answers the question. See what you think of her answer.
Chris Christie, The Beach, and Our Leaders' Massive School Funding Hypocrisy
Jersey Jazzman attacks all three topics, and it's worth reading twice.
Why do we think poor people are poor because of their own bad choices?
Tip of the hat to Blue Cereal Education, a look at the psychological theorizing behind why we blame poor people for being poor.
CURMUDGUCATION: ICYMI: Stuff To Read Edition (7/9):
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Randi Said: The American public resoundingly rejects this healthcare bill
McConnell says limited health bill could be needed:
Randi Said: The American public resoundingly rejects this healthcare bill
Randi Said: The American public resoundingly rejects this healthcare bill
He provided no details during remarks he made at a Rotary Club lunch in a deep-red, conservative rural area of southern Kentucky. They've it could include provisions continuing federal payments to insurers that help them contain costs for some low earners and inducements to keep healthy people buying policies - a step that helps curb premiums.
McConnell spoke hours after Sen.
The Post that McConnell also said, "No action is not an alternative".
Republicans in the Senate would likely need to reach across the aisle if they want to pass legislation aimed at stabilizing the marketplaces, as they have only a slim majority of 52 senators, and a measure that doesn't use the budget reconciliation process would require 60 votes to overcome a filibuster.
"The American public resoundingly rejects this healthcare bill because it's blatantly cruel and mean, especially to the 22 million people who would lose coverage", said Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers.
In a written statement, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., called it encouraging that McConnell had "opened the door to bipartisan solutions". It was reported that Marc Short, Trump's legislative director, said on Sunday that if the Senate were not able to pass their replacement bill after returning from recess, that .McConnell says limited health bill could be needed:
Hiding Behind Rhetoric in the Absence of Evidence | radical eyes for equity
Hiding Behind Rhetoric in the Absence of Evidence | radical eyes for equity:
Hiding Behind Rhetoric in the Absence of Evidence
Hiding Behind Rhetoric in the Absence of Evidence
Having been extensively cited in recent news articles on education, I have received the typical responses, both by email and an Op-Ed (High expectations lead to achievement).
What is notable about these disgruntled responses can be seen directly in the headline above—a dependence on soaring and idealistic rhetoric to mask a complete failure to either discount my evidence or to provide any credible evidence for the counter arguments.
A recent email argued that I was causing more harm than good for emphasizing the impact of racism on literacy education and achievement by students; the rebuttal, however, was peppered with “I believe” and not a single effort to rebut the dozens of research studies I provided on both grade retention and racism/sexism.
While I pressed that point in a few replies, the offended person only ever produced as some sort of evidence a TED Talk, an unintended confession that his world-view depends on whiz-bang showmanship and seeing in any outlier example a confirmation of his biases—what Maia Szalavitz identifies as “’fundamental attribution error’. This is a natural tendency to see the behavior of others as being determined by their character – while excusing our own behavior based on circumstances.”
The emails were almost entirely rhetorical, like a TED Talk, and then Hiding Behind Rhetoric in the Absence of Evidence | radical eyes for equity: