Some blog followers might be interested in a recent post “Re: David Berliner on A Nation at Risk: Three Decades of Lies #2 - ADDENDUM #2” [Hake (2013c)]. The abstract reads:
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ABSTRACT: As a sequel to previous posts “David Berliner on A Nation at Risk: Three Decades of Lies #2” [Hake (2013a)] at http://yhoo.it/10dPm4V and “David Berliner on A Nation at Risk: Three Decades of Lies #2 – ADDENDUM” [Hake (2013b)] at http://yhoo.it/10g1iTV, I'm compelled to point out that today, 26 April 2013, the Fordham Institute http://bit.ly/15WNcPn and American Enterprise Institute http://bit.ly/ZpCkGc, both conservative think tanks, have placed on YouTube at http://bit.ly/10hDbUW a video “A Nation At Risk: 30 Years Later,” featuring such “reformers” as Lamar Alexander, William Bennett, Arne Duncan, Chester Finn, and Michelle Rhee. The only speaker not heaping effusive praise on A Nation at Risk is ex-conservative renegade Diane Ravitch. She says (paraphrasing): “What the writers of A Nation at Risk had in mind was higher standards, better schools, and a stellar public education system. But over the past 30 years the report has become the founding document of the privatization movement - the basis for privatization of the school system and the enrichment of a small number of entrepreneurs.”
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“[The authors of A Nation at Risk] were wrong. Their predictions were all wrong. And I think it would be almost better to regard it as just a wake-up call. It's a way of using language that was overheated to . . . . get attention. But it had a real-world effect because for one thing it began the wrong march to destroy public education which is now in full flower.”
- Diane Ravitch in YouTube video "A Nation At Risk: 30 Years Later"
REFERENCES [URL shortened by http://bit.ly/ and accessed on 27 April 2013.]
Hake, R.R. 2013c. “Re: David Berliner on A Nation at Risk: Three Decades of Lies #2 – ADDENDUM #2,” online on the OPEN Net-Gold archives at http://yhoo.it/10jCnPq. Post of 26 April 2013 23:46:03-0700 to AERA-L and Net-Gold. The abstract and link to the complete post are being transmitted to several discussion lists.
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Saturday, April 27, 2013
Thursday, April 25, 2013
Re: David Berliner on ‘A Nation at Risk’: Three Decades of Lies #2 – ADDENDUM
Some blog followers might be interested in a recent post “Re: David Berliner on ‘A Nation at Risk’: Three Decades of Lies #2 – ADDENDUM” [Hake (2013)]. The abstract reads:
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ABSTRACT: In a previous post, “Re: David Berliner on 'A Nation at Risk': Three Decades of Lies #2” [Hake (2013)] at http://yhoo.it/10dPm4V, I quoted Ken Bernstein's comment on Diane Ravitch’s blog at http://bit.ly/13uNGbs (slightly edited): “Berliner was right in Manufactured Crisis (Berliner & Biddle, 1995/1996 at http://amzn.to/PGOfcT) about the ‘Nation at Risk’ report http://bit.ly/ZJ8Tyi of 30 years ago and is right today."
Berliner & Biddle wrote: “[The Nation at Risk report] made many claims about the ‘failures’ of American education, how those ‘failures’ were confirmed by ‘evidence’ and how this would damage the nation. (Unfortunately, none of the supposedly supportive ‘evidence’ actually appeared in ‘A Nation at Risk’ nor did this work provide citations to tell Americans where that ‘evidence’ might be found.) . . . . . . . . . When one actually examines the evidence, one discovers that it simply will not support the fiction that America has a generally failing system of education. This claim is nonsense.
SO IS AMERICAN EDUCATION OK?? In “Should the Culture of University Science Education Be Changed?” [Hake (2011)] at http://bit.ly/iegznz, I argued that it is *NOT*. For example, in Rising Above the Gathering Storm, Revisited: Rapidly Approaching Category 5 at http://bit.ly/dtQhbS it's stated that (see that report for the references): (1) Sixty-nine percent of United States public school students in fifth through eighth grade are taught mathematics by a teacher without a degree or certificate in mathematics [NCES (2003)]; (2) Ninety-three percent of United States public school students in fifth through eighth grade are taught the physical sciences by a teacher without a degree or certificate in the physical sciences [NCES (2003)]; (3) The United States ranks 27th among developed nations in the proportion of college students receiving undergraduate degrees in science or engineering [OECD (2009a)]; (4) The United States ranks 20th in high school completion rate among industrialized nations and 16th in college completion rate [OECD (2009b)]; (5) The average American K-12 student spends four hours a day in front of a TV [McDonough (2009)]; (6) Sixty-eight percent of U.S. state prison inmates are high school drop-outs or otherwise did not qualify for a diploma [Harlow (2003)].
For one attempt to improve U.S. K-12 science education see "8+1 Science: A new concept in science education" [Michigan State (2012)] at http://bit.ly/Hz898n.
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Richard Hake, Emeritus Professor of Physics, Indiana University
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Links to Socratic Dialogue Inducing (SDI) Labs: http://bit.ly/9nGd3Mhttp://bit.ly/9nGd3M
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REFERENCES [URL shortened by http://bit.ly/ and accessed on 25 April 2013.]
Hake, R.R. 2013. “Re: David Berliner on ‘A Nation at Risk’: Three Decades of Lies #2 – ADDENDUM,” online on the OPEN Net-Gold archives at http://yhoo.it/10g1iTV. Post of 25 Apr 2013 13:09:11-0700 to AERA-L and Net-Gold. The abstract and link to the complete post are being transmitted to several discussion lists.
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ABSTRACT: In a previous post, “Re: David Berliner on 'A Nation at Risk': Three Decades of Lies #2” [Hake (2013)] at http://yhoo.it/10dPm4V, I quoted Ken Bernstein's comment on Diane Ravitch’s blog at http://bit.ly/13uNGbs (slightly edited): “Berliner was right in Manufactured Crisis (Berliner & Biddle, 1995/1996 at http://amzn.to/PGOfcT) about the ‘Nation at Risk’ report http://bit.ly/ZJ8Tyi of 30 years ago and is right today."
Berliner & Biddle wrote: “[The Nation at Risk report] made many claims about the ‘failures’ of American education, how those ‘failures’ were confirmed by ‘evidence’ and how this would damage the nation. (Unfortunately, none of the supposedly supportive ‘evidence’ actually appeared in ‘A Nation at Risk’ nor did this work provide citations to tell Americans where that ‘evidence’ might be found.) . . . . . . . . . When one actually examines the evidence, one discovers that it simply will not support the fiction that America has a generally failing system of education. This claim is nonsense.
SO IS AMERICAN EDUCATION OK?? In “Should the Culture of University Science Education Be Changed?” [Hake (2011)] at http://bit.ly/iegznz, I argued that it is *NOT*. For example, in Rising Above the Gathering Storm, Revisited: Rapidly Approaching Category 5 at http://bit.ly/dtQhbS it's stated that (see that report for the references): (1) Sixty-nine percent of United States public school students in fifth through eighth grade are taught mathematics by a teacher without a degree or certificate in mathematics [NCES (2003)]; (2) Ninety-three percent of United States public school students in fifth through eighth grade are taught the physical sciences by a teacher without a degree or certificate in the physical sciences [NCES (2003)]; (3) The United States ranks 27th among developed nations in the proportion of college students receiving undergraduate degrees in science or engineering [OECD (2009a)]; (4) The United States ranks 20th in high school completion rate among industrialized nations and 16th in college completion rate [OECD (2009b)]; (5) The average American K-12 student spends four hours a day in front of a TV [McDonough (2009)]; (6) Sixty-eight percent of U.S. state prison inmates are high school drop-outs or otherwise did not qualify for a diploma [Harlow (2003)].
For one attempt to improve U.S. K-12 science education see "8+1 Science: A new concept in science education" [Michigan State (2012)] at http://bit.ly/Hz898n.
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Richard Hake, Emeritus Professor of Physics, Indiana University
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REFERENCES [URL shortened by http://bit.ly/ and accessed on 25 April 2013.]
Hake, R.R. 2013. “Re: David Berliner on ‘A Nation at Risk’: Three Decades of Lies #2 – ADDENDUM,” online on the OPEN Net-Gold archives at http://yhoo.it/10g1iTV. Post of 25 Apr 2013 13:09:11-0700 to AERA-L and Net-Gold. The abstract and link to the complete post are being transmitted to several discussion lists.
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Re: David Berliner on "A Nation at Risk" Three Decades of Lies #2
Some blog followers might be interested in a recent post “Re: David Berliner on ‘A Nation at Risk’': Three Decades of Lies #2” [Hake (2013)]. The abstract reads:
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ABSTRACT: Diane Ravitch at http://bit.ly/13uNGbs has called attention to David Berliner's (2013) “Three Decades of Lies” at http://bit.ly/17ihWIM. “Teacherken” (aka Ken Bernstein) commented on Diane's blog entry (paraphrasing) “Berliner was right in Manufactured Crisis (Berliner & Biddle, 1995/1996 at http://amzn.to/PGOfcT) about the ‘Nation at Risk’ report http://bit.ly/ZJ8Tyi of 30 years ago and is right today.” Berliner (2005, 2009) at http://bit.ly/ff8BVj, http://bit.ly/fqiCUA has also been right about “The Overriding Influence of Poverty on Children’s Educational Achievement” (Hake (2011, 2013) at http://bit.ly/tUU65W, http://bit.ly/XHnEzS.
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Richard Hake, Emeritus Professor of Physics, Indiana University
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Academia: http://bit.ly/a8ixxm
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"The data presented in this study suggest that the most powerful policy for improving our nations' school achievement is a reduction in family and youth poverty."
- David Berliner (2005) in "Our Impoverished View of Educational Reform"
REFERENCES [URL’s shortened by http://bit.ly/ and accessed on 24 Apr 2013.]
Hake, R.R. 2013. “Re: David Berliner on ‘A Nation at Risk’': Three Decades of Lies #2” online on the OPEN Net-Gold archives at http://yhoo.it/10dPm4V. Post of 24 Apr 2013 13:27:11-0700 to AERA-L and Net-Gold. The abstract and link to the complete post are being transmitted to several discussion lists.
Berliner, D.C. 2005. "Our Impoverished View of Educational Reform," Teachers College Record, August 02, online as an 872 kB pdf at http://bit.ly/ff8BVj. Berliner argues that: "poverty places severe limits on what can be accomplished through school reform efforts, particularly those associated with the federal No Child Left Behind law."
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ABSTRACT: Diane Ravitch at http://bit.ly/13uNGbs has called attention to David Berliner's (2013) “Three Decades of Lies” at http://bit.ly/17ihWIM. “Teacherken” (aka Ken Bernstein) commented on Diane's blog entry (paraphrasing) “Berliner was right in Manufactured Crisis (Berliner & Biddle, 1995/1996 at http://amzn.to/PGOfcT) about the ‘Nation at Risk’ report http://bit.ly/ZJ8Tyi of 30 years ago and is right today.” Berliner (2005, 2009) at http://bit.ly/ff8BVj, http://bit.ly/fqiCUA has also been right about “The Overriding Influence of Poverty on Children’s Educational Achievement” (Hake (2011, 2013) at http://bit.ly/tUU65W, http://bit.ly/XHnEzS.
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To access the complete 8 kB post please click on http://yhoo.it/10dPm4V.
Richard Hake, Emeritus Professor of Physics, Indiana University
Links to Articles: http://bit.ly/a6M5y0
Links to Socratic Dialogue Inducing (SDI) Labs: http://bit.ly/9nGd3M
Academia: http://bit.ly/a8ixxm
Blog: http://bit.ly/9yGsXh
GooglePlus: http://bit.ly/KwZ6mE
Google Scholar http://bit.ly/Wz2FP3
Twitter: http://bit.ly/juvd52
Facebook: http://on.fb.me/XI7EKm
"The data presented in this study suggest that the most powerful policy for improving our nations' school achievement is a reduction in family and youth poverty."
- David Berliner (2005) in "Our Impoverished View of Educational Reform"
REFERENCES [URL’s shortened by http://bit.ly/ and accessed on 24 Apr 2013.]
Hake, R.R. 2013. “Re: David Berliner on ‘A Nation at Risk’': Three Decades of Lies #2” online on the OPEN Net-Gold archives at http://yhoo.it/10dPm4V. Post of 24 Apr 2013 13:27:11-0700 to AERA-L and Net-Gold. The abstract and link to the complete post are being transmitted to several discussion lists.
Berliner, D.C. 2005. "Our Impoverished View of Educational Reform," Teachers College Record, August 02, online as an 872 kB pdf at http://bit.ly/ff8BVj. Berliner argues that: "poverty places severe limits on what can be accomplished through school reform efforts, particularly those associated with the federal No Child Left Behind law."
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