tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post1526841279977359413..comments2024-03-28T08:51:18.908-04:00Comments on the daily howler: INVISIBLE CHILDREN: How to write elite con fiction!<b>bob somerby</b>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02963464534685954436noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-85448043999643337462013-10-07T08:52:26.167-04:002013-10-07T08:52:26.167-04:00should be "eliminate" not "illumina...should be "eliminate" not "illuminate."Lionelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06336249052780481883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-42788900225444038092013-10-07T08:49:59.654-04:002013-10-07T08:49:59.654-04:00OOF. Yeah, beating down literacy among black peop...OOF. Yeah, beating down literacy among black people for "three hundred years" is the reason that no amount of money poured into their schools produces decent results in 2013.<br /><br />No, its not the thug-rap-violence culture or the culture of women having kids by different fathers, multiple kids by multiple fathers, etc. Its 300 years of discouraging literacy. <br /><br />Bob, this is as dishonest as anything you complain about in the mainstream media. Why would "300 years of trying to illuminate literacy" cause a black woman to have 6 kids by 6 different fathers in 2013? Why would it cause 14 year old black kids to beat up elderly people or that Columbia University professor? And in what world does it make sense not to see a correlation between the poor educational results and the current bad behavior? <br /><br />And you are being dishonest with this baloney that "African American ethical literacy . . . moral literacy" inspires anyone. That is mainstream media pap and ridiculous pap. Oh, how inspired we are by the ethical/moral literacy of the phrase, "99 problems but a bitch ain't one of them." <br /><br />You have a fantasy going there about this demi-God Martin Luther King and its a dishonest fantasy because you know very well that he was not a moral individual.<br /><br /> Lionelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06336249052780481883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-69387386102002051822013-10-05T11:15:24.507-04:002013-10-05T11:15:24.507-04:00I disagree with middle-class kids, or any kids, ne...I disagree with middle-class kids, or any kids, needing smarter teachers and more academic rigor. School kids are over-taught, shuttled through concepts too quickly and they have become skilled at faking having learned something. Slow the teaching down until the kids know something fully. You can't expect much learning by jamming kids through six different subjects every day, for only 50 minutes at a time. We don't need smarter teachers, we need more thorough teachers. We don't need to pressure kids with more rigor that will just cause them to shut down or give up.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-83452734660449953322013-10-04T23:03:17.509-04:002013-10-04T23:03:17.509-04:00Well sir, at least have me classified as Non Essen...Well sir, at least have me classified as Non Essential so I don't haved to do this unless I am paid. I've heard those promises of retroactive compenation one time too many.<br /><br />KZAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-23448678424210644062013-10-04T22:57:18.781-04:002013-10-04T22:57:18.781-04:00It's Friday. BOB is still searching for his b...It's Friday. BOB is still searching for his back channel<br />to NCES data and while BOB could tell you about them, he is too busy reading and aggregating comments on other blogs to answered questions poised by comments on his own (unless you believe in sock puppetry)<br /><br />You can get the data disaggregated based on criteria developed to approximate income and references to that have been made both in BOB's posts and Ripley's work.<br /><br />KZ Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-52512103187373127232013-10-04T18:44:49.477-04:002013-10-04T18:44:49.477-04:00I'm pretty sure there have been studies compar...I'm pretty sure there have been studies comparing international test results disaggregated on home income, but can't remember where they were from (maybe even this blog had the link). Does Ripley make use of such results? Can Bob tell us about them? This is vital to finding out what really affects academic performance. Just immigrant status or race alone doesn't do it.skeptonomistnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-21994186572946237252013-10-04T18:34:44.688-04:002013-10-04T18:34:44.688-04:00negative on that ... you will be attached to tdh...negative on that ... you will be attached to tdh for foreseeable future. american commander, silly blogsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-37615674313508127982013-10-04T17:09:45.050-04:002013-10-04T17:09:45.050-04:00Might as well. All of BOB's readers have. Th...Might as well. All of BOB's readers have. They, like the liberals on MSNBC, seem not to care about our DISAPPEARED kids.<br /><br />KZAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-65095466318021736342013-10-04T16:44:57.007-04:002013-10-04T16:44:57.007-04:00[praying for the latter][praying for the latter]Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-69431873706946382632013-10-04T14:48:59.430-04:002013-10-04T14:48:59.430-04:00OMB (Part 10-A)
Elite Con Fiction is a perfect na...OMB (Part 10-A)<br /><br />Elite Con Fiction is a perfect name for a one post TDH review combining both Ripley's book and the Times and Post reviews of Ripley's books which BOB found offensive.<br /><br />Clearly without any further elaboration of what, if anything, she prescribes to accomplish her "two or three gentle education reforms"<br />it is hard to argue against better teaching or more rigor. As a good liberal tribalist, I am sure I could muster some animosity toward "or three" but I have yet to hear anything about that third reform at all.<br /><br />So what have we here, in Post # 10 about this readable scam? The R-bomb. With, of course, the disclaimer that nobody living dropped the damned thing.<br /><br />No living person created that history. And praise be those who curse those who incorrectly mention that a substanital portion of our population who didn't create that history seems hell bent on perpetuating it.<br /><br />Coming: In Part 10-B we will match memory with BOB about the PISA data base. Or we will get another assignment on our troll board and go away.<br /><br /><br />KZ <br /> <br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com