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Jonathan Becker

Betsy DeVos: The Queen of Obfuscation, Talking Nonsense | Alternet - 0 views

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    Her substance-free performances are all the more remarkable given the fierce urgency with which DeVos has pursued her agenda since arriving in Washington. Sidelining federal civil rights enforcement, rolling back protections for students who have been defrauded by shady for-profit colleges, meeting with a steady stream of "edupreneurs" and flogging school choice at every turn-these have been busy days for the Secretary.
Jonathan Becker

Why Education is a Limited Determinant of Mobility - The Atlantic - 0 views

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    "Ultimately, most Americans would probably agree that leaders should work to build great schools, and that individuals who work hard should be able to improve their economic earnings over time. Devoting the bulk of one's attention to the former in the hopes that it causes the latter, however, might prove to be a real mistake.  "
Jenn Jones

How Slang Affects Students in the Classroom - US News and World Report - 0 views

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    Very Interesting Article ! BTW - We have had many discussions about this! Happy Wednesday - Read this and let me know how you feel about it.
Jonathan Becker

New York City Halts Teacher Bonus Program: Another Blow to Evidence-Resistant Ideology ... - 1 views

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    Practicing evidence-based management isn't easy given our various human flaws.  But we sure could save a lot of money, a lot of heartache, and make people's lives a lot better if we all tried a lot harder to do it.  There are plenty of outcomes in life that are impossible to predict.  Unfortunately, what happened in New York was completely predictable, even if people with blind faith in linking test scores to financial rewards for schools and teachers remain unwilling to believe this well-established truth now. 
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    Why are we so against reading the research and applying it? Truth is that this is completely absurd - merit pay does not work in education. The commodity we work with as educators is human and by all rights unpredictable. Measuring the students annually on a standards based assessment is but one indicator of that students performance. This is such a shame - wasted tax payer dollars and lots of disappointment.
Jonathan Becker

dy/dan » Blog Archive » David Labaree's Three Rules For New Education Researc... - 1 views

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    Be irrelevant.Be wrong.Be lazy.
Jonathan Becker

Reforming the School Reformers - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    To point out the obvious: These are excuses. In fact, they are the very same excuses for failure that the education-reform movement was founded to oppose. (If early reformers believed in anything, it was that every student is an apple.) And not only are they excuses; they aren't even particularly persuasive ones. 
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