Charter Apologists Make Trumpian Claim Regarding “Hidden” Data Not Part Of CA’s School Dashboard
The astroturf groups ParentRevolution and SpeakUp are flooding social media of late with their PR-honed contention that opposing LAUSD charter-advocacy-backed members Nick Melvoin’s and Kelly Gonez’ School Performance Framework (“SPF”), is “hiding” data from parents.
What sort of double-speak nonsense is it to claim that full access to direct data unencumbered by crazy data manipulation, is “hiding” data? Just publishing the data, as directed by boardmember Jackie Goldberg’s alternate resolution, is the complete opposite of “hiding” it. “Hiding data” is in fact precisely what the market-based Education-reform, charter-school ideologues are advancing when they claim manipulated data is more true than the data itself.
This highly-vaunted “growth data” they crusade for is a variant of the data manipulation enlisted by the same legions of “quants” arguing how best to maximize their personal stock portfolio. It is math (technically, algebra) weaponized for maximizing personal earnings. Not yours, not mine, and not students’ educational assets either. This is a neoliberal game for those who are investing in education as a privatized asset: financiers and charter school advocates.
What actually is “growth data”?
It is a tool of social science, comparing “apples to oranges” by employing a statistical technique to adjust for what is integrally different about the fruits, leaving a debatably residual “direct” comparison.
The claim is made, for example, that if an apple tree were shaded and an orange tree grown in full sunlight, a better comparison of their “true” relative growth CONTINUE READING: Charter Apologists Make Trumpian Claim Regarding “Hidden” Data Not Part Of CA’s School Dashboard – redqueeninla
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