Friday, June 1, 2012

Bush Policy Aviser Mocked for “Most Compellingly Lousy Education Research of the Past Year” | Scathing Purple Musings

Bush Policy Aviser Mocked for “Most Compellingly Lousy Education Research of the Past Year” | Scathing Purple Musings:


Bush Policy Aviser Mocked for “Most Compellingly Lousy Education Research of the Past Year”

Matt Lander, a key policy and research aid to Jeb Bush, referred to “teachers and their unions” to Hitler’s forces in an ALEC paper this summer. His intellectually flawed and dishonest work  received just due this week. rom Teresa Stepzinski in the Florida Times-Union:
He likely won’t be showcasing the award in his office.
But Matthew Ladner, a senior advisor of policy and research for former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush’s Foundation for Excellence in Education, has received inaugural “Get a Life(time) Achievement Award” for bunkum from the National Education Policy Center at the University of Colorado in Boulder.
The NEPC Bunkum Awards are “presented for the most compellingly lousy educational research