tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6976144462093297473.post8410082721629698885..comments2024-03-26T19:10:00.791-04:00Comments on West Coast Stat Views (on Observational Epidemiology and more): "Never trust a superintendent. They'll lie to your face"Josephhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10760453165301871031noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6976144462093297473.post-81422026212838994672016-09-22T16:43:51.914-04:002016-09-22T16:43:51.914-04:00Yes and no. It's true that these changes mirro...<br />Yes and no. It's true that these changes mirror the larger changes in society, but that was more or less the point. Movement reformers promised that introducing business ideas and market forces would basically fix all of our problems. Much, if not most, of the initial framework came out of McKinsey & Company. The education reform movement explicitly advocated making education culture look more like corporate culture. They thus deserve some of the blame when superintendents start talking like Enron executives. Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14705408455380402571noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6976144462093297473.post-57846696521032609672016-09-22T10:02:06.830-04:002016-09-22T10:02:06.830-04:00"What the movement has done, completely unint..."What the movement has done, completely unintentionally, is to increase the rewards for being a mealy-mouth weasel who puts his or her own interests ahead of those of the children."<br /><br />Yes, but how is this unique to education? Isn't this what we have done to pretty much everything over the last several decades?<br />Clyde Schechterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10037411039318795888noreply@blogger.com