Comments on: More money, same results, more money

By: allen

allen — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 10:58:47 +0000

Not to strike too conciliatory note but it’s not that uncommon a human failing to hew to the safe and familiar. Ships have sails, locomotives belch smoke, you get from one place to another riding on a horse or staring at it’s rear end.

In this case education reform can only take place within the context of the school district. That effectively circumscribes the techniques that might be put into effect to those which cause the least disruption to the school district. Whether they result in better education is obviously of secondary importance and always will be.

By: Bill Leonard

Bill Leonard — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 02:52:59 +0000

“…she’s kidding herself if she thinks that ‘any’ reform as currently envisioned is going to transform schools with extremely low achievement.”

The prioblem is, not just “any” reform has been attempted. Only the least intrustive — which just means more of the same old failing approaches, as approved by the teacher’s unions and the education bureaucracy — have been trotted out. Which, in turn, means that nothing much ever will change, and that the parents who are aware enough, concerned enough, and probably, affluent enough, will continue to vote with their feet and their wallets, and the private school/charter school/voucher/home schooling ranks will continue to grow.

By: Allison

Allison — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 02:18:57 +0000

Arrgh! My strikethrough tag didn’t work!

By: Allison

Allison — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 02:18:23 +0000

–Despite
Because of big payouts to under-performing schools, the ones that continually failed to improve outcomes for schoolchildren (and there are hundreds of them) never faced any serious consequences…

Fixed it for them.

What gets rewarded gets repeated. If you reward under-performing, there is no incentive to stop under-performing.

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By: Darren

Darren — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 22:11:49 +0000

I’ve met Margaret Fortune several times. She’s an intelligent person who genuinely wants good schools. Sadly, though, she’s kidding herself if she thinks that *any* reform as currently envisioned is going transform schools with extremely low achievement.