tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post1675961784871625322..comments2024-03-28T10:22:25.136-04:00Comments on the daily howler: Margaret Spellings, propagandist!<b>bob somerby</b>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02963464534685954436noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-63171131344476072492020-09-17T05:35:54.912-04:002020-09-17T05:35:54.912-04:00Vanilla Card Activation process allows their custo...Vanilla Card Activation process allows their customer to Activate : https://cardactivationtech.com/category/store-card/Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01255912957110562787noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-91992721284930751372020-07-29T15:55:03.877-04:002020-07-29T15:55:03.877-04:00Bila anda tidak mempunyai rekanan atau kenalan yan...Bila anda tidak mempunyai rekanan atau kenalan yang eksper dalam judi <a href="http://www.mega88play.com/" rel="nofollow"><b>slot online</b></a> mega88, karena itu anda dapat menelusurinya sendiri lewat internet. Di jaman yang serba internet ini, segala hal sekarang dapat dengan gampang diketemukan di internet. Jadi anda perlu membaca artikel – artikel mengenai judi slot online mega88, lalu anda dapat mendapatkan situs judi paling baik pada artikel itu.Game Review Sighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08965461011001253381noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-78491822949331551482013-12-31T17:54:45.630-05:002013-12-31T17:54:45.630-05:00Anon. @ 10:15.
The answer is because my qiuz is P...Anon. @ 10:15.<br /><br />The answer is because my qiuz is PISA not NAEP. I do not want to hear the answer you have been taught to memorize rom Teacher BOB in "Lesson 3: Imaginary Traffic Studies from New Jersey." Using what you learned in that lesson you would pick the No Change Answer automatically. With critical skills picked up from a Polish of Finnish Educator or a Teacher of Tigers, you would deduce that answer is contained within answer d). Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-24629147296186058252013-12-31T16:19:57.009-05:002013-12-31T16:19:57.009-05:00"Teaching to the test" is the real scand..."Teaching to the test" is the real scandal. Kids are not motivated to take tests which there is such a hoo-hah about, but rather to enrich their lives with learning. Cutting them off from doing that is the real point of the tests...something I am sure The Shrub knew well.opithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01621946866211400380noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-17838496340395911042013-12-31T11:55:04.551-05:002013-12-31T11:55:04.551-05:00Having taught in an "at risk" school dur...Having taught in an "at risk" school during those NCLB years, it appears to me very likely that the reason the NAEP scores began to flatten out at the end of the decade is the fact that schools had essentially maxed out on teaching to whatever high stakes test their students had to take. If there is a sense of urgency in the minds of both schools and students about the results of such tests, teaching to the test will most likely improve the skills of the average and below-average students. This level of improvement could easily be reflected in NAEP scores as well as state-mandated tests. Currently, Texas is engaged in the introduction of supposedly more rigorous state tests. One good reason to make the tests more demanding is the belief that the schools had more or less mastered teaching to the old test. jhandnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-87528273843970028992013-12-31T10:28:49.965-05:002013-12-31T10:28:49.965-05:00KZ - hilarious.
choice (f) should be
librulz lie...KZ - hilarious.<br /><br />choice (f) should be<br /><br />librulz lied about Zimmerman,Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-69789327400721656342013-12-31T10:15:23.179-05:002013-12-31T10:15:23.179-05:00If 75000 cars are blocked from access, there is no...If 75000 cars are blocked from access, there is no change in the traffic on the bridge. Why is that not one of your multiple choice options?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-64241009919859291592013-12-31T03:03:52.838-05:002013-12-31T03:03:52.838-05:00What the heck we said to ourselves, why not let BO...What the heck we said to ourselves, why not let BOBfans see them here:<br /><br />PISA Math 2012<br /><br />Poland 518 (Up 23 from 2009)<br />USofA 481 (Slacking Off 9 Under HopeyChangey)<br /><br />PISA Science<br /><br />Poland 526 (Plus 18 in three years)<br />USofA 497 (Minus 5 since the Transformation)<br /><br />PISA Reading<br /><br />Poland 518 (Gain of 18 since 2009)<br />USofA 498 (Down only 2 in our strongest subject)<br /><br /><br />Extra Credit: Practical math test question on PISA. If 75000<br />cars are blocked from gaining access to a bridge, is traffic on the bridge<br /><br />a) Increased<br />b) Decreased<br />c) We just don't know<br />d) Both True and False<br /><br />KZ Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-44265978318622949552013-12-31T02:33:13.703-05:002013-12-31T02:33:13.703-05:00OMB (BOB, hypocritist!) Part 2
We are most curio...OMB (BOB, hypocritist!) Part 2<br /><br />We are most curious at what BOB seems to have missed in this seemingly through dissection of the error plaugued piece by Margaret Spellings. Assuming minimal competence on his part, we thought surely someone debunking propaganda would have seen this missing item as important. (As important, for example, as the lengthy chiding of Spellings's one point error in calculating fouth grade score gains). <br /><br />Spellings made a far more ludicrous claim regarding PISA than the one about the progress of the nations BOB lovingly calls "the Asian Tigers." It equals or exceeds, in our view, the claim she tried to make about NAEP progress under Bush compared to Obama. We know the lengths BOB went to to debunk that claim. Correctly, we might add, in our view.<br /><br />She writes about U.S. PISA scores: "had our students continued to improve in 2012 as they did in 2009, the picture of national education achievement would be much different.<br /><br />In 2009, U.S. PISA scores improved notably in math and science, increasing by 13 points in each area. But they then fell back in 2012. Had U.S. students’ math scores made another 13-point gain in 2012, our students would now be well above the PISA average....the headlines would be about improvement, not stagnation."<br /><br />The US test scores in 2009 in both math and science on PISA were indeed 13 points higher than the previous test in 2006. Unfortunately that big gain was made possible in part because the math scores fell by 19 points from 2000 to 2006 and by 10 points in science during the same period. In fact, the year before Bush took office, U.S. PISA scores in both math and science were already above the OCED average. They fell below that average during both tests administered while he was President. <br /><br />Why didn't BOB point that out? Could it be because someone close to him had already employed the tactic of starting to measure score gains on PISA beginning with the test year immediately after the lowest recent scores on record? We don't know, and neither does our Polish Uncle.<br /><br />And speaking of our Polish Uncle, have you seen the recent PISA scores from his kiddos, our little kuzzes from Krakow? It's a Polish miracle, we're telling you! Of course, you won't be seeing them here.<br /><br />KZAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-4481719418859951482013-12-31T02:16:57.941-05:002013-12-31T02:16:57.941-05:00OMB (BOB, hypocritist!) Part 1
There must be a l...OMB (BOB, hypocritist!) Part 1<br /><br />There must be a logical explanation why BOBfans are avoiding commenting on this fine post.<br /><br />Perhaps they are following one of BOB's often state points: by their silence they are showing their assent. We don't know.<br /><br />Perhaps they were busy watching Texas Tech wallop Arizona State<br />and wondering how this could happen to a team clearly better than Auburn. (http://dailyhowler.blogspot.com/2013/12/why-auburn-outranks-arizona-state.html ) We just don't know.<br /><br />Or could it be that they have figured out that this post, while demonstrating how bad Margaret Spellings is, also verfies the basic<br />point we have been offering in our mysteriously motivated but relentless commentaries on the blogger sent to save us from or shame us as we fall into a state of intellectual paralysis. <br /><br />Spellings is indeed a propagandist BOB. But she is also you.<br /><br />Bob previewed this post by calling Spellings out for "clownishly cherry-picking her data." He is right. <strong>In our view he didn't go nearly far enough in calling her out on this score.</strong> We'll save that for Part 2 below. Cherry picking is, unfortunately, a practice demonstrated at this fine blog as well. BOB did it when he tried, unsuccessfully, to prove Amanda Ripley was conning readers by selecting Poland as an example of an educational system surpassing the U.S. Just like Spellings, he made factual errors. And he cherry picked the years he used to measure score gains in a effort to demonstrate U.S. PISA gains in recent years exceeded those of Poland. This is what Spellings did, selecting years to make it appear great progress was being made under Bush then lost by Obama.<br /><br />We are amused at BOB for noting almost casually that Spellings picked only one test subject (math) and a single grade level (4th) to try and make her case specious claims about NAEP test score gains during the Bush years compared to Obama. BOB could have pointed out she deliberately cherry picked here as well, because she obviously selected the subject and grade level at which the greatest gains during the "Bush era" could be claimed. Did BOB not savage her on this point because he himself did the same thing just last week to savage Valarie Strauss, using only 8th grade math NAEP scores? http://dailyhowler.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-year-of-living-propagandistically.html) We just don't know. <br /><br />BOB certainly felt compelled to laboriously present the results for both tests and both grades in this post when it reinforced his point. He left them out earlier when such data didn't enhance his script.<br /><br />But the parallels which are present pale compared to what BOB left out.<br /><br />KZAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-80373511994625579162013-12-30T21:14:37.155-05:002013-12-30T21:14:37.155-05:00I have read that according to Chinese law these gi...I have read that according to Chinese law these girls still reside in the rural provinces from which they originally came and are thus not eligible to attend schools in cities like Shanghai, which score so highly on the PISA exams. In effect, they are legally cut off from getting an education. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-32050504810873253682013-12-30T18:03:43.755-05:002013-12-30T18:03:43.755-05:00I have been listening to the book Factory Girls (L...I have been listening to the book Factory Girls (Leslie Chang), about migrant workers in the factories of China. These girls typically come from rural towns. They leave middle school at age 15-16 and go illegally to the city where they use false ID to get jobs as assembly line workers. They have to do this because the legal working age is 18 and they have no residence permits for the city. They are poorly educated but learn job skills to make themselves more employable and to move into better paying jobs. If they do not advance, they return to their small towns and marry. I doubt these girls are reflected in any of the education test statistics for the PISA. They consider themselves too poorly educated to qualify for a university education, or their families have no money to send them to further schooling. Drop out rates affect scores for the US, but this migration phenomenon is happening on a larger scale than our own drop outs and there does not appear to be an effort on anyone's part to keep these girls in school. China is benefitting too much economically from the cheap labor they are providing in the factories which supply goods to American and other companies.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-49324893658085851142013-12-30T16:36:33.206-05:002013-12-30T16:36:33.206-05:00Spellings uses the typical politician tactic of ta...Spellings uses the typical politician tactic of taking credit for anything good that happened on her watch, except that she doesn't even get the numbers right. I'm not sure that the focus on change is appropriate. Suppose NCLB worked and was responsible for the gains from 2000 to 2007. One would expect the period of gains to be temporary. At some point, the scores would stabilize at a higher level, because of the continuation of NCLB. If that's so, maybe Obama deserves credit for maintaining the NCLB gains and adding somewhat to them.<br /><br />Let me emphasize that the above paragraph is theoretical. IMHO nobody really knows what amount of credit or blame either President deserves for these scores.David in Calnoreply@blogger.com