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> Yecke" <yecke@comcast.net>
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FYI,
The Washington Times, Thurs., April 29, 2004, Pg. A6
High schoolers lacking in math, science courses
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20040428-104800-1077r.htm
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Subject: Fw: The Washington Times: High schoolers lacking in math, science courses
From: "gerald bracey" <gbracey@erols.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 08:37:59 -0400
If you wonder how information spreads to the Right, look no further than the mailing list for this article from Washington Times "reporter," George Archibald. Not sure why George put me on it. Maybe he thinks I'm ripe for conversion to the starboard.
To keep the address line small, blind copies were sent to lists of AASA state execs, NSBA state execs, the Education Writers Association, and the Education Policy fellows at Arizona State.
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Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2004 8:05 AM
Subject: Re: The Washington Times: High schoolers lacking in math, science courses
> George,
>
> Thank you for this piece of horseshit--no fault of yours, of course. Give
> our ideologues at the Department a Ph.D. in spin. More math and science
> courses produces more jobs? Tell that to all those Indian software
> engineers sitting around in tea shops wondering why they can't find work.
>
> This report sounds like a rewrite of that Golden Treasury of selected, spun
> and distorted statistics, A Nation At Risk (see my article on its 20th
> anniversary, "April Foolishness" in the April, 2003 issue of Phi Delta
> Kappan).
>
> I've loaned my copy of Trends in Educational Progress, but I doubt seriously
> the contention that scores have been flat since 1995 will hold up under
> scrutiny. Because of the changing demographics in this country, you have to
> look at NAEP scores by ethnic group. Otherwise you fall victim to Simpson's
> Paradox, something I explained in "Simpson's Paradox and Other Statistical
> Mysteries" in the February 2004 issue of the American School Board Journal.
>
> You once complained about the laziness of so many journalists (after I had).
> Don't take this garbage from the Department at face value. Dig up the truth
> and throw it in their faces.
>
> Good luck.
>
> Jerry Bracey