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Title : CURMUDGUCATION: More Pandemic Prompted Reformster Baloney
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CURMUDGUCATION: More Pandemic Prompted Reformster Baloney
CURMUDGUCATION: More Pandemic Prompted Reformster BaloneyMore Pandemic Prompted Reformster Baloney
I had put off reading Kevin Huffman's slice of baloney in the Washington Post because I knew it would tax my blood pressure medications. But as disruptors and refornsters and privatizers rush to adjust their various sales pitches and policy arguments to fit the new realities, we have to pay attention.
Huffman's disruptor credentials are solid. He ran Tennessee's education system based on his couple of years in a classroom via Teach for America (motto: "Just because you don't know what you're talking about, that doesn't mean you can't be an education expert"). Huffman pioneered the Achievement School District, a failed model in which the state took over schools with the lowest test scores. Since then he's become part of the City Fund, a group devoted to that wants to use the portfolio model to privatize education.
Huffman doesn't get everything wrong. He notes, for instance, that online education has been largely a failure, a failure notable enough that even the bricks-and-mortar charter crowd have turned on them. Huffman even manages a non-baloney quote from professional economist and education amateur Eric Hanushek, who notes that if companies investing tons of money in online education can't make it work, “it seems unlikely that parents and teachers Googling resources will” do any better.
So while some homeschooling and cyber-schooling fans are declaring that, despite all those CONTINUE READING: CURMUDGUCATION: More Pandemic Prompted Reformster Baloney
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