Greene also pushed pseudo-science arguing against health care for #LGBTQ+ kids.
Using as a flimsy an evidence base as the #schoolvouchers data he’s flooded the zone with for 20+ years
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It’s 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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Think about the raw cynicism it takes to exploit divisions in race, gender and sexuality—with all the adjacent violence—to push a #schoolvouchers end-game that can’t stand on its own evidence-based feet.
Now through in Heritage and the #schoolvouchers backing Bradley Foundation’s direct support for #ElectionDenial and voter suppression and you have a genuinely threatening anti-democratic, anti-human rights hydra. @JaneMayerNYer@valeriestrauss
I always go back to @matt_barnum on this, who said we need to take seriously the alarm from school leaders even as we explore the mismatch with admin data.
It’s silly to argue that admin data show anything like a crisis on teacher exits. Those data don’t.
But I’m surprised that with advent of mixed methods in policy research more folks aren’t looking for ways to join both #educators perspectives and admin data.
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I suspect some of this comes down to the same old difference in the way economists study data without always interrogating sources.
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❌ Third, related to villains is stoked fear:
✔️ perceived threat to way of life
✔️ fear of “the other”
✔️ imagined threats to own children coupled with willingness to actually put them at risk
ExcelInEd *seems* safe because they’re moderate relative to crazy Dixon-type book ban howls today and have impressive array of moderate funders you’d expect from a Bush-led org.
And as an org in many ways they are. I’d take them over @BetsyDeVos any day.
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It’s a big edu/policy research conference week (#APPAM2022#ASHE2022#UCEA22) and here’s 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 they’re really political activists
Voucher “empirical” research showing positive academic effects are no less a political tactic than this piece of garbage here—and by the same organizations.