tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19457872.post5374123413369231116..comments2024-03-26T23:57:42.268-04:00Comments on SpeEdChange: David Brooks: Fighting Wordsirasocolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01412837280249622430noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19457872.post-15966672396059816662009-03-20T21:28:00.000-04:002009-03-20T21:28:00.000-04:00i agree we have to look at systemic change. i dis...i agree we have to look at systemic change. i disagree that the david brooks's of the world are scared such change would threaten their position. unlike you, i know quite a few ivy league folks. you get the same mix of a holes to saints you get in any class of society. ivy leaguers are just usually more ambitious a-holes or saints or anything in between. just a prejudice can spring from ignorance or maliciousness, so can a person's prejudice against change in the educational system. most policy people just don't know. they aren't evil as you are preoccupied at portraying them.v/vmaryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06862544306715636777noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19457872.post-65093379921495093212009-03-14T10:06:00.000-04:002009-03-14T10:06:00.000-04:00David Brooks is typical of the "policy maker class...David Brooks is typical of the "policy maker class" - these are wealthy people for whom "the world as it is has worked" - so their "classical liberalism" (whether Americans call that "liberalism" or "conservatism") is always based in "doing more of the same," or "doing the same better."<BR/><BR/>Fundamental change, change which might truly empower others, scares them to death, because, obviously, that would threaten their position.<BR/><BR/>So the embrace of testing and "grade level expectations" is perfect for them. They get to sound like "reformers" while ensuring that those "unlike themselves" are properly 'filtered out' and consigned to the permanent underclass.<BR/><BR/>- Ira Socolirasocolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01412837280249622430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19457872.post-55906910824261421582009-03-13T10:33:00.000-04:002009-03-13T10:33:00.000-04:00I, too, was upset by the NCLB comment. Data can be...I, too, was upset by the NCLB comment. Data can be so misleading, especially if it is manipulated, skewed by various factors, or interpreted in a way that deliberately supports a particular view, thus becoming biased. How about being more results driven rather than data driven? How about letting me, the professional educator, decide what works and run with it instead of you, the professional politician, telling me what to do based on some data that does not truly represent my current classroom? Thanks for nothing, Washington.<BR/><BR/>Great post.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19457872.post-24204917721814973462009-03-13T10:05:00.000-04:002009-03-13T10:05:00.000-04:00That NCLB part made me want to scream. I wonder wh...That NCLB part made me want to scream. I wonder what his reaction to the Howard Gardner et.al. piece about the future of learning. http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/full/10.1162/ijlm.2009.0005<BR/><BR/>The cluelessness amazes me at times.Will Richardsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05971776026580744097noreply@blogger.com