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So many different Right-$ groups inflating evidence for #schoolvouchers itâs impossible to âđ all of them. #txlege #gapol #neleg #INed #ksleg
But hereâs the general pattern, using this EdChoice table as an example (there are many more):
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So many different Right-$ groups inflating evidence for #schoolvouchers itâs impossible to âđ all of them. #txlege #gapol #neleg #INed #ksleg
But hereâs the general pattern, using this EdChoice table as an example (there are many more):
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First is the absence of abysmal negative OH, and IN results by teams led by Figlio and Berends, respectively.
Those studies use panel data and methods and find terrible statewide at-scale voucher effectsâhugely relevant to legislation today.
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chalkbeat.org/2018/8/9/21107âŠ
Those studies use panel data and methods and find terrible statewide at-scale voucher effectsâhugely relevant to legislation today.
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chalkbeat.org/2018/8/9/21107âŠ
But #schoolvouchers advocates drop them from tables like the đ because theyâre not lottery-based studies. Itâs true that lotteries are gold standard evaluation toolâbut have well-known limitations re: scale and generalizabilityâkey issues today.
Any case, you donât drop them
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Any case, you donât drop them
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Thereâs a #schoolvouchers link to the #January6thReport. It centers around attorney Cleta Mitchell who led Trumpâs GA pressure efforts after the vote. #BigLie
Mitchell is all over the final report:
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january6th.house.gov/sites/democratâŠ
Mitchell is all over the final report:
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january6th.house.gov/sites/democratâŠ
Mitchell is also Board Secretary for the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, a huge #schoolvouchers backer out of Wisconsin thatâs given $millions to voucher research and advocacy.
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archive.jsonline.com/newswatch/2037âŠ
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archive.jsonline.com/newswatch/2037âŠ
The Bradley Foundation is also financially the âextraordinary forceâ behind #BigLie efforts, per @JaneMayerNYer reporting @NewYorker.
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newyorker.com/magazine/2021/âŠ
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newyorker.com/magazine/2021/âŠ
A𧔠on why the #KYed ruling last week against #schoolvouchers tax credit scheme matters @NPEaction @Network4pubEd @PV4PS @BadassTeachersA @edvoters
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First: a winâs a win. Itâs good to see #schoolvouchers stopped anywhere. The push to privatize is so relentless, so well-funded by such a narrow swath of backers, it can feel like swinging in the dark against it.
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But more concretely: the KY Court found that #schoolvouchers tax credit shell game was a budget commitment even though itâs not a direct appropriation. Reducing revenue by $10 is the same as spending $10.
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The push for #education privatization #schoolvouchers is now a cruel update to longer efforts to separate single out and separate children. @carolburris @Network4pubEd @NPEaction
Heritage announced its #EducationFreedom strategy early in 2022:
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heritage.org/education/repoâŠ
Heritage announced its #EducationFreedom strategy early in 2022:
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heritage.org/education/repoâŠ
And Heritage has been branching out on this tactic by adopting itself as a pseudo sex-science shop
The goal here is to underscore differences as âchoiceâ and âvaluesâ #lgbtqia #LGBTQ
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heritage.org/gender/event/tâŠ
The goal here is to underscore differences as âchoiceâ and âvaluesâ #lgbtqia #LGBTQ
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heritage.org/gender/event/tâŠ
With longstanding antipathy to #DEI baked into an #EducationFreedom agenda that in their telling is good for kids of color
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heritage.org/educationreporâŠ
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heritage.org/educationreporâŠ
Donât let the Right define opposition to #SchoolVouchers
Itâs their way of setting up targets to shoot down. @DianeRavitch @rweingarten @Network4pubEd @NPEaction @PV4PS @palan57 @BadassTeachersA
The problems are:
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â Tax-giveaways for those already in private school
Itâs their way of setting up targets to shoot down. @DianeRavitch @rweingarten @Network4pubEd @NPEaction @PV4PS @palan57 @BadassTeachersA
The problems are:
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â Tax-giveaways for those already in private school
â A revolving door of children in and out of private schools promising long term academic stability
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dianeravitch.net/2022/12/12/josâŠ
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dianeravitch.net/2022/12/12/josâŠ
Another glaring gap between the actual Fordham #ohioed #schoolvouchers results and the spin from its Forward is on student achievement.
@NPEaction @Network4pubEd @PV4PS @OhioPEP @StephenODyer @CLub_edu @SchlFinance101
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@NPEaction @Network4pubEd @PV4PS @OhioPEP @StephenODyer @CLub_edu @SchlFinance101
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The actual researchers clearly say their results are due to changes in student compositionâwith #schoolvouchers by design drawing more lower income students (ie also lower ave test scores) away from districts.
So districts didnât actually improve #education due to vouchers
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So districts didnât actually improve #education due to vouchers
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They just lost lower scoring kids.
âBut wait!â #schoolvouchers activists may say, âthat shows vouchers are admitting poorer kids!â
True enough but thereâs no evidence voucher programs know how to *serve* those kids.
Quite the opposite:
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âBut wait!â #schoolvouchers activists may say, âthat shows vouchers are admitting poorer kids!â
True enough but thereâs no evidence voucher programs know how to *serve* those kids.
Quite the opposite:
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Itâs the #schoolvouchers two-step playbook:
â set up a bar they know theyâll pass by saying âcritics sayâŠâ
â barely pass and celebrate.
But thereâs never discussion of relative effects:
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â set up a bar they know theyâll pass by saying âcritics sayâŠâ
â barely pass and celebrate.
But thereâs never discussion of relative effects:
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For example there is vastly more and stronger evidence that funding public schools has substantial and long-term effects that dwarf the tiny âcompetitive effectsâ on public schools that some #schoolvouchers studies find
#schoolfinance @SchlFinance101 @dsknight84
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#schoolfinance @SchlFinance101 @dsknight84
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And Fordham glaringly ignores its own previous study showing that students who actually use #schoolvouchers had test score drops ~ 4x the test gains by competition in the new study @Network4pubEd @OhioPEP @PV4PS
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A few general comments on this new Fordham report on #ohioed #schoolvouchers:
@Network4pubEd @PV4PS @NPEaction @NEPCtweet @pfpsorg @OhioPEP
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fordhaminstitute.org/ohio/research/âŠ
@Network4pubEd @PV4PS @NPEaction @NEPCtweet @pfpsorg @OhioPEP
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fordhaminstitute.org/ohio/research/âŠ
First and most important: the study presents a ton of zero impacts and tiny effects. Mostly this is #schoolvouchers report about statistical noise, packaged as a win. The beauty of null results is one can see what one wants.
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But in whatâs become a trend for Fordham, its house-written Forward makes way more of the externally done results than it should.
Basically the argument goes
â#schoolvouchersâ critics say vouchers hurt but we find no evidence of vouchers doing anything! Critics are wrong!â
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Basically the argument goes
â#schoolvouchersâ critics say vouchers hurt but we find no evidence of vouchers doing anything! Critics are wrong!â
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Imploring #edchat journalists to ask these data questions of current/proposed #SchoolVouchers schemes.
Itâs how we know the so-called #COVID19 exodus for private/#homeschool will come back.
5-year voucher exit rates *before* COVID were near đŻ
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dianeravitch.net/2022/12/12/josâŠ
Itâs how we know the so-called #COVID19 exodus for private/#homeschool will come back.
5-year voucher exit rates *before* COVID were near đŻ
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dianeravitch.net/2022/12/12/josâŠ
There are 3 groups of #schoolvouchers usersâeach giving lie to #EducationFreedom:
đ€ long-standing #privateschool parents cashing inâfar the largest group
đ€ voucher-curious kids leaving soon after (most of the rest)
đ”âđ« some stray sortersâoften susceptible to recruiting
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đ€ long-standing #privateschool parents cashing inâfar the largest group
đ€ voucher-curious kids leaving soon after (most of the rest)
đ”âđ« some stray sortersâoften susceptible to recruiting
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There is NO evidence that #schoolvouchers give long-term âlifelinesâ out of so-called failing schools. Theyâre a tax-giveaway to parents already sending kids privateâŠ
âŠand for the rest a crypto-like short-term gamble that they usually back out of soon after enrolling.
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âŠand for the rest a crypto-like short-term gamble that they usually back out of soon after enrolling.
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Why have #schoolvouchers programs persisted and expanded despite a more lopsided base of objective evidence against them than nearly any other current #edpolicy #education initiative?
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First is that today #schoolvouchers activists are directly part of the larger #trump-style revanchist and anti-democratic turn in American politics since Obamaâs second term.
Politically their success is intertwined.
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Politically their success is intertwined.
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But as a policy matter too we see #schoolvouchers linger around even as #education research has tried to place itself in an #evidencebased position to inform policy.
If evidence were all that informed #edpolicy then vouchers would have been dead a decade ago.
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If evidence were all that informed #edpolicy then vouchers would have been dead a decade ago.
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One reason #schoolvouchers are still described as having âmixedâ outcomes is the success of advocates propping up shoddy studies to flood the zone and offset quality evaluations showing dreadful impacts.
But itâs also because few people know what âmixedâ truly looks like.
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But itâs also because few people know what âmixedâ truly looks like.
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But another reason is non-researchers donât know what âmixedâ truly looks like. #SchoolVouchers outcomes are mixed compared to a standard of âall results show bad outcomes.â
Most doâand all recent doâbut not all studies ever show negative.
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Most doâand all recent doâbut not all studies ever show negative.
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But thatâs not the question. Relative to other #edpolicy questions #schoolvouchers research over the last decade is entirely one-sided.
I could tell a data-driven story on either side of many #edpolicy questions. Where you have to decide the general tendency not an absolute
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I could tell a data-driven story on either side of many #edpolicy questions. Where you have to decide the general tendency not an absolute
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"#ALECâs proposed Free Speech in Higher Education Act debated by members this week would ban public universities from using bias reporting systems to prevent or punish âoffensiveâ or âunwantedâ speech by students, faculty, staff, or guests." exposedbycmd.org/2022/11/30/ale⊠#HigherEd
#ALECâs FORUM Act "has passed in multiple states with the help of the hate group Alliance Defending Freedom, aims to address the manufactured free speech âcrisisâ being hyped by the Right, often by sending extremist provocateurs to speak at colleges and universities." #HigherEd
The real reason for the attack on libraries dailykos.com/stories/2022/1⊠This "has always been about keeping people uneducated and ignorant. Suppressing diverse ideas has always been the hallmark of conservatism, and free libraries stand in the way of their goal."
The #schoolvouchers crowd loves to site my decade old PSJ paper using matched Milwaukee data to show small positive effects on attainment.
But they ignore my 3 other studies in far better journals that look awful for vouchers and are more informative to policy today
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But they ignore my 3 other studies in far better journals that look awful for vouchers and are more informative to policy today
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First up in @EEPAjournal: in âLife After Vouchersâ we show low-income and Black students exit #schoolvouchers at higher rates and DO BETTER once returning to Milwaukee Public Schools @DianeRavitch
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journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.31âŠ
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journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.31âŠ
Next up in @aerj_journal in âGoing Publicâ we deep dive into those kids who give up #schoolvouchers and show they are historically underserved and come from âpop upâ voucher schools founded to take tax $
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journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.31âŠ
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journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.31âŠ
The folks I mention here are already pushing back on this piece @DianeRavitch so in lieu of direct social media battles Iâm going to just âreply allâ with a new point:
Letâs talk âpeer review.â The #schoolvouchers crowd has made use of this fuzzy term for years.
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Letâs talk âpeer review.â The #schoolvouchers crowd has made use of this fuzzy term for years.
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âPeer reviewâ can mean a lot of things. For example this paper by Corey DeAngelis in something called the âJournal of Free Enterpriseâ is âpeer reviewed.â
Sorry but thatâs just not JPAM or AEJ: Policy or EEPA and anyone credible knows that. đ€Šââïž
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Sorry but thatâs just not JPAM or AEJ: Policy or EEPA and anyone credible knows that. đ€Šââïž
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And a number of âpeer reviewedâ studies come from the working paper series at UArk that Jay Greene founded, whichâat least when I reviewed for them years agoâpaid $250-500 a pop.
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đšA new front has opened up in the push to privatize #schools.đš
At Fox News Jeb Bush explicitly cited #soldastory as a reason we need #AZEd #schoolvouchers. @edvoters @BadassTeachersA @Network4pubEd @PV4PS đ
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foxnews.com/opinion/our-châŠ
At Fox News Jeb Bush explicitly cited #soldastory as a reason we need #AZEd #schoolvouchers. @edvoters @BadassTeachersA @Network4pubEd @PV4PS đ
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foxnews.com/opinion/our-châŠ
#Reading is going to be the new wedge issue to pitch #schoolvouchers /ESAs to parents understandably frustrated at #scienceofreading issues but who were turned off by the voucher culture war pitch.
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Just days before writing this Fox column and citing #reading as a reason states need #azed style #schoolvouchers Bush was honoring voucher hero @DougDucey at the annual ExcelInEd meeting
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And #schoolvouchers activists exploit parent frustration over whatâs often real inadequacy of some public districts to meet special needs.
But vouchers as a fix are based on a theory of action assuming district neglectâwhen really districts themselves are under-resourced.
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But vouchers as a fix are based on a theory of action assuming district neglectâwhen really districts themselves are under-resourced.
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#schoolvouchers advocacy organizations stand up parents of these kids like other Right-wing groups go plaintiff-shopping in legal cases. Promising them vouchers as a cure-all.
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The name of the game for political #schoolvouchers activism is to build coalitions of support based on false promises, when the reality delivered will be a narrow constituency of families already in private school.
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Hey đ #educators and defenders of #publicschools:
Got an angry #MAGA family relative at your #Thanksgiving đŠ table who likes to yell at you about #publiceducation?
Hereâs a short âwell actuallyâ sheet to đ back:
@Network4pubEd @NPEaction @PV4PS
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Hey đ #educators and defenders of #publicschools:
Got an angry #MAGA family relative at your #Thanksgiving đŠ table who likes to yell at you about #publiceducation?
Hereâs a short âwell actuallyâ sheet to đ back:
@Network4pubEd @NPEaction @PV4PS
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âIâm sick of just throwing money at #schools that just waste it!â
Well, actually, Aunt Betsy, investing in #publiceducation is one of the best things taxpayers can doâmore $$, better outcomes. @KiraboJackson
chalkbeat.org/2018/12/17/211âŠ
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Well, actually, Aunt Betsy, investing in #publiceducation is one of the best things taxpayers can doâmore $$, better outcomes. @KiraboJackson
chalkbeat.org/2018/12/17/211âŠ
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âAnd all this crime you damn liberals have going around too!â
Well, actually, spending more $$ on #schools helps reduce long term #crime rates too! @fordschool @BrittanyEdPol @JasonBaron4
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fordschool.umich.edu/news/2022/inveâŠ
Well, actually, spending more $$ on #schools helps reduce long term #crime rates too! @fordschool @BrittanyEdPol @JasonBaron4
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fordschool.umich.edu/news/2022/inveâŠ
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Before he was peddling #schoolchoice as a âsolutionâ to woke:
Jay Greene/Heritage less than a year ago explicitly argued the Right should fuel culture wars to advance a fringe agendaâmainly #schoolvouchers
@Network4pubEd @NPEaction @PV4PS @pastors4txkids @BadassTeachersA
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Before he was peddling #schoolchoice as a âsolutionâ to woke:
Jay Greene/Heritage less than a year ago explicitly argued the Right should fuel culture wars to advance a fringe agendaâmainly #schoolvouchers
@Network4pubEd @NPEaction @PV4PS @pastors4txkids @BadassTeachersA
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Greene also pushed pseudo-science arguing against health care for #LGBTQ+ kids.
Using as a flimsy an evidence base as the #schoolvouchers data heâs flooded the zone with for 20+ years
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Using as a flimsy an evidence base as the #schoolvouchers data heâs flooded the zone with for 20+ years
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Itâs critically important to understand the links between shoddy #schoolvouchers research showing positive impacts, and these pseudo-studies.
Two sides of the same @BetsyDeVos -based agenda.
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Two sides of the same @BetsyDeVos -based agenda.
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So much of edu-Right is cult-like.
â First is the weird hero-worship of figures like Bush, @BetsyDeVos, @DougDucey even lesser names like Rhee, and collection of Broad-supts #education #privateschool @DianeRavitch @NPEaction @PV4PS @mrobmused
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So much of edu-Right is cult-like.
â First is the weird hero-worship of figures like Bush, @BetsyDeVos, @DougDucey even lesser names like Rhee, and collection of Broad-supts #education #privateschool @DianeRavitch @NPEaction @PV4PS @mrobmused
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â Second are the villains, which every extremist group/cult needs to project its weird grievance on
For the edu-Right itâs
âïž#teachersunions specifically @rweingarten
âïžâgovernmentâ
âïž#woke/#DEI / #CRT âagendaâ
âïž Trans-kids/ #LGBTQ adults
âïž who the hell knows what else
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For the edu-Right itâs
âïž#teachersunions specifically @rweingarten
âïžâgovernmentâ
âïž#woke/#DEI / #CRT âagendaâ
âïž Trans-kids/ #LGBTQ adults
âïž who the hell knows what else
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â Third, related to villains is stoked fear:
âïž perceived threat to way of life
âïž fear of âthe otherâ
âïž imagined threats to own children coupled with willingness to actually put them at risk
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âïž perceived threat to way of life
âïž fear of âthe otherâ
âïž imagined threats to own children coupled with willingness to actually put them at risk
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𧔠for #MIpol reporters: all fall I called Ducey MVP of #schoolvouchers and here heâs getting that actual award from Jeb Bushâs ExcelInEd
That group damage to #miched is huge. Theyâre behind 3rd Grade Fail modeled on #FloridaEd. Snyder gave them literal seat at the table
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That group damage to #miched is huge. Theyâre behind 3rd Grade Fail modeled on #FloridaEd. Snyder gave them literal seat at the table
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ExcelInEd will lead the fight against repeal of 3rd Grade Retention in the new #mileg. @PaulaMEAPres @mrobmused
Expect bogus âinsideâ stories like this one, which got started pre-Whitmer #migov and then released early in her term to keep foot on gas
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excelined.org/wp-content/uplâŠ
Expect bogus âinsideâ stories like this one, which got started pre-Whitmer #migov and then released early in her term to keep foot on gas
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excelined.org/wp-content/uplâŠ
ExcelInEd *seems* safe because theyâre moderate relative to crazy Dixon-type book ban howls today and have impressive array of moderate funders youâd expect from a Bush-led org.
And as an org in many ways they are. Iâd take them over @BetsyDeVos any day.
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And as an org in many ways they are. Iâd take them over @BetsyDeVos any day.
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Itâs a big edu/policy research conference week (#APPAM2022 #ASHE2022 #UCEA22) and hereâs a short thread on ideological diversity in edu-research and edu-journalism #edchat using the Greene/Heritage studies as a hook
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Itâs a big edu/policy research conference week (#APPAM2022 #ASHE2022 #UCEA22) and hereâs a short thread on ideological diversity in edu-research and edu-journalism #edchat using the Greene/Heritage studies as a hook
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Some formal edu research/journo communities have tolerated increasingly far-Right stuff for years, in part because of a genuine commitment to multi-perspectives, and also out of fear of being labeled ideological or against free speech themselves
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And in the #edchat journalism space there is some of the notorious #bothsides pressure too, to give voices to the Heritages and Catos if the world.
This is why people like Corey DeAngelis routinely are quoted as expert researchers when theyâre really political activists
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This is why people like Corey DeAngelis routinely are quoted as expert researchers when theyâre really political activists
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NO the evidence for #schoolvouchers isnât âmixed.â
Voucher âempiricalâ research showing positive academic effects are no less a political tactic than this piece of garbage hereâand by the same organizations.
#edchat
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NO the evidence for #schoolvouchers isnât âmixed.â
Voucher âempiricalâ research showing positive academic effects are no less a political tactic than this piece of garbage hereâand by the same organizations.
#edchat
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Heritage, Goldwater, Cato and EdChoice form the entire favorable base of evidence for #schoolvouchers.
No reporter would consider a study like this a neutral âstudyâ
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No reporter would consider a study like this a neutral âstudyâ
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No reporter would consider this anything but a politically motivated âstudyâ
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Quick𧔠on vouchers and fringe campaigns:
The common link between @gretchenwhitmer @katiehobbs is both ran against fringe #schoolvouchers candidates #Election2022
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The common link between @gretchenwhitmer @katiehobbs is both ran against fringe #schoolvouchers candidates #Election2022
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Whitmer ran against @BetsyDeVos handpicked avatar @TudorDixon who made #schoolvouchers and âparentsâ the centerpiece of her campaign
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Hobbs ran against @BetsyDeVos choice Kari Lake, who made AZâs recent #schoolvouchers expansionâthe largest in the USâher own centerpiece
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For non-MI folks:
A Sunday thread 𧔠on the history of Let MI Kids Learn, the pre-packaged name for @BetsyDeVos #schoolvouchers in #miched
@DianeRavitch @saribethrose @vicpasquantonio @Network4pubEd
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A Sunday thread 𧔠on the history of Let MI Kids Learn, the pre-packaged name for @BetsyDeVos #schoolvouchers in #miched
@DianeRavitch @saribethrose @vicpasquantonio @Network4pubEd
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Among the dozens of #schoolvouchers plans Iâve seen, this was the worst in terms of transparencyâalongside #azed and #floridaed.
In particular no failsafe against Chatfield-style allegedly abusive schools.
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bridgemi.com/guest-commentaâŠ
In particular no failsafe against Chatfield-style allegedly abusive schools.
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bridgemi.com/guest-commentaâŠ
Whitmer actually vetoed the plan originally a year ago. And as early as then, the state GOP didnât expect to win the #migov (save for a more recent post-primary fever dream) in #Election2022
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detroitnews.com/story/news/polâŠ
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detroitnews.com/story/news/polâŠ
