By: Deborah Perkins-Gough
Let’s look at just one example of the twisted words and logic here: “those arguing that college is not for everybody, from a low expectations viewpoint, sound similar to those who argue that we can’t...
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“On the big things you’ve got to be impatient and you can’t accept compromise,” he insists. “You can accept consensus, but you can’t accept compromise, particularly if compromise yields mediocre...
View ArticleBy: Peter Meyer
Dear Deborah, I’m afraid you’re splitting hairs here when you the question calls for drawing nation-state boundaries. You say, “no one is actually saying that `we can’t fix schools until we solve...
View ArticleBy: Karl Wheatley
I’ll be direct about it: As an educational researcher, I’m not aware of any evidence that we can erase learning gaps across the board (not just in cherry-picked examples) without significantly reducing...
View ArticleBy: Peter Meyer
Karl, I’m not sure your definitions of “across the board” or “cherry-picked,” but I would suggest that American education for much of the 19th and 20th centuries is a testament to our ability to...
View ArticleBy: Guy Bourrie
On educating the poor and disadvantaged I believe we are expending abundant energy. Where that energy produces only friction is in classrooms with great chasms between students. Can we teach all at the...
View ArticleBy: Michael Langdon
The irony is that the right complains about the nanny state while creating one for the raising of children that relinquishes the responsibility of the family and places it on the state. Mr Bush, you...
View ArticleBy: Peter Meyer
Michael: The “right” has created a nanny state “for the raising of children”? I don’t get it. Are you equating a good public education system with parenting? Guy: Paradigm shift indeed. First, you need...
View ArticleBy: Michael Langdon
Peter, your comments are absent facts and evidence and really appear to be just a string of empty cliches. I really don’t care what Robert Hutchins said because it isn’t evidence of anything. Listen to...
View ArticleBy: peter meyer
Michael, I’ve been in plenty of classrooms. Forget the parents; they’re not there. The school’s obligation, from time immemorial (including the last 150 years or so), is to teach the kid. Not the...
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[...] results of Bush’s program for public schools — what he likes to refer to as “the Florida miracle” – are very thin indeed. The “miracle” claim is derived primarily from the fact that [...]
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[...] force against it. You did note the title, right? Parent Empowerment? Former Governor Bush was later quoted as saying, “Only in a Kafka novel and the Florida legislature would the PTA oppose...
View ArticleBy: Sara
I know I’m a little late to the conversation but I just had to add something. Deborah, the only year NAEP was taken among high school seniors was 2009, and using one year of data from one grade level...
View ArticleBy: Quan
Peter, this is no longer a partisan issue. Governor Bush assesses the multiple causes quite well. His proffered solutions during his tenure, and now, have not changed the status quo, and I am sure he...
View ArticleBy: Peter Meyer
Hi Quan. I’m not sure what you mean by “results,” but the gap closing numbers cited in my story are real. And behind those numbers are thousands of children who got a better education as a result....
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