Re: NCLB help!!!!

[Rick Parkany <rparkany@BORG.COM>]

> Let me save the taxpayers' money on the study.  The state is free to refuse resources under ESEA.  That would shrink the state education budget by around 7-10 percent.  I'm sure the citizens of Washington would just jump at the chance to make up the difference.
>
> Art

Well, Art: DO take the time to read Jerry's excellent critique.

I heard him speak its theme @ AEA2002 (AmEvaluationAssoc)last month in WashDC. He was invited by Dr.
Sandra Mathison to sing the *swan song* of the AEA's select committee's year long work for the AEA
Board of Directors and whose task it was to have formed the AEA's position statement on high-stakes
testing (the first political action of its kind on the part of that organization--see ref, below).

Congratulations, again, Sandra! a truly remarkable achievement for such a staid organization in so
many ways--but, thanks to work such as this and Jerry's presentation, the AEA is becoming more
ethically & moarally conscious: no small feat, this.

At any rate:    the case has ben made quite clearly by Jerry's research & inquiry that:

        ...by ADDing in the COSTs of yearly *scientific* testing
        (in the grades mandated), Fed(?!) and/OR state-tax based
        AND by SUBTRACTing the STATIC level in FUNDing by TitleI
        (aka, LNCB) available for *remediation* (aka teach-to-test
        *Academic Intervention Services* that rob liberal arts
        curriculum of the *lower half of the bell curve* kids,
        THAT,when all the CASH settles:

        the NET Gain is NEGATIVE!

        READ:   It COSTS more for the districtthan turning down
        the *hook*: Title I--it's only bait, Art...dead bait!

DO read Jerry's work, Art: his style is pleasant and easy, get away from those numbers m'Man and
READ Jerry's work:
Education Disinformation Detection and Reporting Agency
http://www.america-tomorrow.com/bracey/EDDRA/

Thus, words like this that Jerry offers to us go along way to validating my predictions to this list
and to proving the quite wild claim I made three years ago, that:

IF the true costs be known (in BOTH financial AND political terms) of HST;
AND
after our struggle takes deep effect:
THE POLITICIANS WILL LEAVE EDUCATION TO WHOMEVER DID IT BEFORE!

As I said: They will have found out that HST education is TOO expensive and too political for them
to stand; in the end, the height of these stakes wil NOT reach their offices, and they will leave
the filed of battle as did the US in Viet Nam

...BUT:

we've GOT to be ready in the LURCH w/a plan to put in when they DO leave or we will be neglecting
the political vacuum of the century and have nothing to fill it with... ;-} rap.

REF:
THE 11TH BRACEY REPORT ON
The Condition of Public Education:
http://www.america-tomorrow.com/bracey/EDDRA/bracey11.htm
By Gerald W. Bracey posted with permission from the October 2001 issue of Kappan
Art Burke wrote:
>
> Let me save the taxpayers' money on the study.  The state is free to refuse resources under ESEA.  That would shrink the state education budget by around 7-10 percent.  I'm sure the citizens of Washington would just jump at the chance to make up the difference.
>
> Art
>
> >>> Jedoyon@AOL.COM 12/03/02 10:02AM >>>
> In a message dated 12/3/2002 9:51:40 AM Pacific Standard Time,
> rparkany@BORG.COM writes:
>
> > is the product of Bubbaism
>
> Well, the man in the white house is the best evidence AGAINST Social
> Promotion I can think of.  And, as I told the teacher writing the column,
> when I am superintendent, the first operation I set up, utilizing the highly
> capable staff at OSPI rather than importing expensive outside consultants,
> will be a feasibility study on ESEA REFUSAL.
>
> Analize that.
> Juanita
>
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Richard A. Parkany: SUNY@Albany
Prometheus Educational Services
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Upper Hudson & Mohawk Valleys; New York State, USA

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