Re: NCLB help!!!!

[Art Burke <aburke@VANSD.ORG>]

Well, if Jerry can kill off an ad-hoc committee with a speech, think what he will do to NCLB if he really gets warmed up.

Art

>>> rparkany@BORG.COM 12/03/02 11:40AM >>>
It was an ad-hoc, single-charge committee whose tenure was *one year*, Art.

In this case, the *Committee is Dead! Long LIVE the Committee!!*

This, BTW, is the ultimate homage that can be made to death: we live, all of us, unto our own
deaths, each in our own unique way toward this most ubiquitous fact of life, dear Art (paraphrasing
Heidegger as I do, here).

In this case, the death bore great Life, as every parent wishes the best for their off-spring. Life
is full of mysteries, Art--even to the unitiated--Death is but one of them.

Speaking of Life: jump in m'friend! the water's fine... ;-} rap.
Art Burke wrote:
>
> "Swan song" usually connotes finality and farewell, as in death.  Jerry must have given some speech.
>
> Art
>
> >>> rparkany@BORG.COM 12/03/02 11:13AM >>>
> > 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

--
"Dein Wachstum sei feste und lache vor Lust!
Deines Herzens Trefflichkeit
Hat dir selbst das Feld bereit',
Auf dem du bluehen musst." JS Bach: Bauern Kantata
Richard A. Parkany: SUNY@Albany
Prometheus Educational Services
http://www.borg.com/~rparkany/ 
Upper Hudson & Mohawk Valleys; New York State, USA

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