Re: Fw: [eddra] C-Span Program

[Horace B Lucido <hbl04@csufresno.edu>]

Monty,
Watch this program? Why get sick on such a nice day? I would much rather read your take....at least I got a good laugh out of that. Your honest appraisal is enough for me.
Rog

Rog ( Horace ) Lucido, Physics Instructor, Ret. 
Program Evaluator 
Adjunct Faculty, Fresno Pacific University 
Educational Consultant 
Educators and Parents Against Testing Abuse ( EPATA ) 
Assessment Reform Network Central Valley Coordinator 
Phone: 559-277-1312 
Cell: 559-355-4215 
email: lucid4@cvip.net 


----- Original Message ----- 
From: Monty Neill <monty@fairtest.org> 
Date: Wednesday, July 2, 2008 11:47 am 
Subject: [arn-l] Fw: [eddra] C-Span Program 
To: ARN-L <arn-l@interversity.org>, arn2-strategy <arn2-strategy@yahoogroups.com>, ndsgroup@yahoogroups.com 

> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: mbsolomon@aol.com 
> To: eddra@yahoogroups.com 
> Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2008 2:11 PM 
> Subject: [eddra] C-Span Program 
> 
> 
> 
> In case you missed it, C-Span aired a 4-hour program on the 
> Economic Implications of the Crisis in American Education 
> 
> Notice that the title tells you that it was not intended to be an 
> analytical discussion, but instead to try to explain why American 
> education is broken. 
> 
> Unbelievably, they chose Bill Bennett, the great educational 
> bloviator and Eric Hanushek, the thin-air economist to help bash 
> public education. 
> 
> You can watch the entire 4 hours below, but I want to simply, 
> quickly, point out how inane some of this stuff is. Hanushek, for 
> example thinks that if there is a correlation between two 
> variables, it proves cause and effect---and he gets to choose 
> which variable is the cause and which is the effect. He offered 
> the vacuous proposition that if the U.S. schools could improve 
> test scores by a small amount, it would raise the gross national 
> product such that it would pay for all of education in America 
> (at 2:20). He further told his audience that if the schools could 
> get rid of the worst 10% (as I recall) of teachers, U.S. students 
> would be near the top in international tests. 
> 
> Of course, Bill Bennett gives rise to projectile vomiting, so you 
> should skip his blathering from 1:31 to 2:05. The bright light of 
> the entire show was Helen Ladd from Duke University who brought 
> some light into a reasonably dark day. 
> 
> The program can be seen at: 
> 
> rtsp://video1.c-span.org/15days/e062708_education.rm 
> 
> 
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