tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628172601886929098.post1707232252803081417..comments2024-03-28T08:55:53.818-04:00Comments on Perdido Street School: Education Reformer Slams Booker, Defends Christiereality-based educatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01712885202661371924noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628172601886929098.post-28874867596525659592010-12-30T01:46:21.214-05:002010-12-30T01:46:21.214-05:00You need to take a closer look at Booker's ten...You need to take a closer look at Booker's tendencies as it relates to ed policy. This is a guy who was a founder/ing board member of E3 (Excellent Education for Everyone) notoriously of the "refomer" movement; heavily backed by DFER; used to/still does (?) sits on Columbia's School of Ed board; has no issue with backing "opportunity tax credits/scholarships" aka vouchers; and stumps for all charters without pausing to consider that there are many failing charters in Newark. So before you jump on the Booker bandwagon, beware.B. Barretthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17884831944177769880noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628172601886929098.post-87383162810343101062010-12-29T19:16:42.583-05:002010-12-29T19:16:42.583-05:00Will this be the beginning of the end of the honey...Will this be the beginning of the end of the honeymoon period between Disneyland Christie and Booker? I hope so. <br /><br />Nice punches as usual RBE.g3noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628172601886929098.post-11229500134344543562010-12-29T13:45:25.373-05:002010-12-29T13:45:25.373-05:00From Pat Buchanon's latest column on education...From Pat Buchanon's latest column on education. FINALLY an ed. expert tells the unvarnished truth on why the results are not that great in the U.S...<br /><br />http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=40846<br /><br />"Which brings us to "Bad Students, Not Bad Schools," a new book in which Dr. Robert Weissberg contends that U.S. educational experts deliberately "refuse to confront the obvious truth."<br /> <br />"America's educational woes reflect our demographic mix of students. Today's schools are filled with millions of youngsters, many of whom are Hispanic immigrants struggling with English plus millions of others of mediocre intellectual ability disdaining academic achievement."<br /> <br />In the public and parochial schools of the 1940s and 1950s, kids were pushed to the limits of their ability, then pushed harder. And when they stopped learning, they were pushed out the door.<br /> <br />Writes Weissberg: "To be grossly politically incorrect, most of America's educational woes vanish if these indifferent, troublesome students left when they had absorbed as much as they were going to learn and were replaced by learning-hungry students from Korea, Japan, India, Russia, Africa and the Caribbean."<br /> <br />Weissberg contends that 80 percent of a school's success depends on two factors: the cognitive ability of the child and the disposition he brings to class -- not on texts, teachers or classroom size.<br /> <br />If the brains and the will to learn are absent, no amount of spending on schools, teacher salaries, educational consultants or new texts will matter.<br /> <br />A nation weary of wasting billions on unctuous educators who never deliver what they promise may be ready to hear some hard truths."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com