" I do not understand why universities, like Troy University in Alabama, spew venom at educators." Says Larry Lee an Alabama writer who has studied rural schools: "Teacher bashing" has become as common as bugs on a car windshield. It's just something we've come to expect from the misguided and uninformed." Here is what Bill Mathis with the National Education Policy Center in Colorado said about Troy's "discredited notions about vouchers, charters and the like:" it's "woefully ignorant of the vast body of research literature on educational reforms... he started with his conclusions and then cherry-picked "studies" to support his notions...It is a bunch of unsupported claims that go against the substantial body of legitimate research.He demonstrates a near-religious fealty to market-models even when the evidence is not with him. It is basically an evidence free screed... |
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I began teaching in 1963,; Ba and BS in Education -Brooklyn College. I have the equivalent of 2 additional Master's, mainly in Literacy Studies and Graphic Design. I was the only seventh grade teacher of English from 1990 -1999 at East Side (more...)