Thu
Feb 9 2012
02:37 am
Do you know the single most reliable predictor of student test scores?
By: EricLykins

Politicians don't.
via niemanwatchdog.org, Diane Ravitch

Diane Ravitch poses a dozen piercing questions on education and school policy. Some of them turn conventional thinking on its ear, and each could be a starting point for reporting on elections, from the presidency on down to local school boards.

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Funny that this comes from

Submitted by Stick on Thu, 2012/02/09 - 11:03am.

Funny that this comes from Nieman when some of worst culprits work just across the Harvard campus at the Center for Education Policy Research. Might I suggest that some intrepid young journalist try her/his hand at an exposé on how the economics profession is doing its level best to destroy a public institution that took nearly a century to build? [/shrill]

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economics

Submitted by EricLykins on Thu, 2012/02/09 - 2:54pm.

economics profession

Economics is still dead, and we live in the zombie apocalypse of marketing and PR people.

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