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By: Enabling the Opponents of Reform | The Foundry: Conservative Policy News.

Enabling the Opponents of Reform | The Foundry: Conservative Policy News. — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:33:29 +0000

[...] meaning to the word ‘retro’.University of Arkansas education researcher Jay P. Greene probably put it best:The Ford Foundation might as well give $100 million to the city of Las Vegas to address gambling [...]

By: Enabling the Opponents of Reform | Conservative Principles Now

Enabling the Opponents of Reform | Conservative Principles Now — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 03:35:21 +0000

[...] of Arkansas education researcher Jay P. Greene probably put it best: The Ford Foundation might as well give $100 million to the city of Las Vegas to address gambling [...]

By: Enabling the Opponents of Reform « Conservative Thoughts and Profundity

Enabling the Opponents of Reform « Conservative Thoughts and Profundity — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:02:29 +0000

[...] of Arkansas education researcher Jay P. Greene probably put it best: The Ford Foundation might as well give $100 million to the city of Las Vegas to address gambling [...]

By: Greg Forster

Greg Forster — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:33:01 +0000

My favorite part is where she says the standard for allowing the creation of a choice school is whether you’d allow your child to go there. Kind of revealing, don’t you think? I mean, let’s leave aside the inherent authoritarianism which assumes that the rulers should make laws for their subjects based on the rulers’ private preferences. Even if it were OK to judge by what would be best for your own child, shouldn’t the rulers instead look at the dismal schools these kids are currently forced to attend and ask whether you’d ever let your child go *there*? I mean, I don’t see any of these comfortable upper-class anti-choice politicians lining up to send their kids to the schools they condemn the poor to attend.

By: concerned

concerned — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:25:36 +0000

Guess the Ford Foundation folks didn’t read this report:

National Teachers’ Unions and the Struggle Over School Reform

http://cccr.org/detail/article.cfm?article_id=39&bread_crumb=Education+Publications+&bread_crumb_url=education/publications.cfm

By: Jay P. Greene

Jay P. Greene — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:08:50 +0000

Thanks, Dan!

By: matthewladner

matthewladner — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:38:39 +0000

The people of Arkansas can rest easy knowing that they have the Gulletts of the world to protect them from charter schools.

Oh, but 36% of Arkansas students scored below basic on reading on the 2007 4th grade NAEP. It’s too bad Gullett was too busy to protect those kids from those schools.

Maybe next year…

By: Arkansas Voter

Arkansas Voter — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:45:11 +0000

It’s amazing that a State Board of Education member wouldn’t know how to spell KIPP — and would be unashamed to admit as much! — even though 1) KIPP is one of the most famous educational developments in the nation; 2) KIPP is famous within Arkansas education circles for its efforts in the Delta; 3) KIPP is specifically mentioned by name in the Arkansas charter school law; and 4) KIPP even had an application that the State Board was considering just last week!

For Gullett not to know KIPP’s name at this point shows that she is ignorant of the most basic facts about her job. It also shows that there’s not a snowball’s chance that she actually read the “1000+ pages of charter application material.”

By: Mid-Riffs » Blog Archive » A Comment from Elsewhere

Mid-Riffs » Blog Archive » A Comment from Elsewhere — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:55:36 +0000

[...] Gullett of the State Board of Education left a lengthy comment on Jay Greene’s blog. Most of the comment, which is reprinted below, was really addressed to [...]

By: Dan Willingham

Dan Willingham — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:55:57 +0000

Jay, would still rather read you on a drawing-a-blank day than most other bloggers when they are on their stride. Always interesting, always make me think.