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- 03-21-2011
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Blog by Lily Eskelsen/Lilly’s Blackboard
One of the distinguished dignitaries participating in the first-ever world conference of leaders from education unions and education ministers, reported on a remark once offered after a presentation of solid, undisputed education research, “Well, that may be true, but it sure isn’t what anyone believes.” He was making the point that it doesn’t matter what the research says if the political realities are that most people don’t believe it. Powerful people who have any old idea about what they’d like to try to improve public schools will trump solid, undisputed education research if most people think the any old idea seems to make sense. Like, for instance, something called “market reforms” for schools. Powerful people have an idea that if we ran schools like businesses, we’d see better “outputs”. (more...)
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