tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-133521035538248322.post1806550894502449063..comments2023-12-24T05:39:44.753-06:00Comments on Mike Klonsky's Blog: The real Chicago "miracle" -- Arne Duncan still has a jobMike Klonskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02017021676773731024noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-133521035538248322.post-11261995309996479812011-12-11T01:03:05.764-06:002011-12-11T01:03:05.764-06:00Why would Arne Duncan be embarrassed? He doesn'...Why would Arne Duncan be embarrassed? He doesn't understand well enough (or care enough) to be embarrassed! It's absolutely amazing (in a very tragic sense)that just when we thought NCLB would go away, that American education would get better & begin to heal when Bush went bye-bye, that, instead, under Obama & Duncan it's gotten worse--much, much worse. So much worse, in fact, that this country's education system may never recover. And yet, the NEA endorsed Obama--way back in March, way before the convention--without even attempting to ask, to make it a condition for endorsement--that Arne Duncan step down, resign, & be replaced with someone like Diane Ravitch (or, even, Diane, herself!).Because, as we who care & we who ARE educators, & we, who understand & who do what needs to be done for our children, Duncan and his boss and his DOE have done more to rend and to rip and to tear the fabric of American education to shreds.<br /> And they don't care.Cara Boutkidsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-133521035538248322.post-73458281915103933192011-12-10T14:00:21.275-06:002011-12-10T14:00:21.275-06:00There is a Hawthorne Effect in a sense, Matt. Sinc...There is a Hawthorne Effect in a sense, Matt. Since test scores are the gold standard, schools that are being studied focus their efforts of testing preparation. The test drives the curriculum, shapes the school day and school year. all in response to the fact that they are being studies for evaluation purposes. Thus you might expect that with all the emphasis on the test and all the funding driving that emphasis, and all the teaching to the tests, etc... that test scores would surely rise across the board and that schools would fulfill their mission under NCLB that by the year 2014, all children would be scoring above the norm. (What a contradiction there!). But in fact, as you can see from the latest NAEP test results, it's quite the opposite.Mike Klonskyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02017021676773731024noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-133521035538248322.post-65165679998444052472011-12-10T13:01:55.900-06:002011-12-10T13:01:55.900-06:00Mike, isn't that all number churning caused by...Mike, isn't that all number churning caused by the Hawthorne effect?Matt Mezger, Sr.http://www.blackdahliareader.infonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-133521035538248322.post-77741086459678573162011-12-09T12:13:16.921-06:002011-12-09T12:13:16.921-06:00As journalist Claude Cockburn once said, "Don...As journalist Claude Cockburn once said, "Don't believe anything until you hear the official denial."Michael Fiorillonoreply@blogger.com