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To save man from the morass of propaganda, in my opinion, is one of the chief aims of education. Or they’re from education journalists who are competitors of some kind. The Walton Family Foundation was one of the first organizations to boost charter schools and calculates that it has supported about a quarter of them, spending hundreds of millions of dollars and pledging more than $1 billion.
Read the full column here.
She’s given permission to Strauss to publish the piece, but Strauss gets the byline. The June study was the third in a series started in 2009 by CREDO, or the Center for Research on Education Outcomes, which was founded at the University of Rochester by Margaret “Macke” Raymond and her husband, Eric Hanushek, an economist.
The Wall Street Journal editorial board hailed the results as showing “huge learning gains over union schools” (with “union schools” used as a pejorative reference to public schools in traditional school districts). Education must enable a man to become more efficient, to achieve with increasing facility the ligitimate goals of his life.
Education must also train one for quick, resolute and effective thinking.
Intelligence plus character — that is the goal of true education. The City Fund is financially supported by a number of billionaires who support charter schools, including Bill Gates, John Arnold and Reed Hastings. She introduces the writings of others, usually in a paragraph or two, and then comes the contributed text.
(Somewhat recently, she’s started indicating that the contributed text is being used with permission of the original author.) Her function would seem to be assigning or sifting through potential contributions, which is what a features or opinion editor does.
But to the headline-reading public (and on Twitter and Feedly) the pieces look like they’re written by her. My main issue with her blog is that it doesn’t seem to offer readers an honest, somewhat balanced assessment of the big education issues that are being debated, or isn’t balanced with another blog so that readers of the Post can at least see two sides of a discussion.
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Regards— Deepak Chopra (@DeepakChopra) May 18, 2015
Strauss published a follow-up piece complaining that Chopra’s email and Tweet were misguided: “He said it was written by me. As such, she’s getting un-derserved credit for others’ work, and different treatment from others at the Washington Post who do much the same job.
Educational reforms have been even more sluggish and entangled in bureaucratic stalling and economy-dominated decisions. The most dangerous criminal may be the man gifted with reason, but with no morals.
The late Eugene Talmadge, in my opinion, possessed one of the better minds of Georgia, or even America. Oh, and it annoys me to no end that Answer Sheet blog posts overwhelm regular reported news stories on the site’s education page and on Feedly as if blog posts and reported news are the same thing.
I really like the name they picked for their higher education blog.
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By all measuring rods, Mr. Talmadge could think critically and intensively; yet he contends that I am an inferior being.
Widely read and admired especially by critics of the current education reform movement, The Answer Sheet predominantly features opinion and commentary. On her blog, the byline says that Strauss “covers education and runs The Answer Sheet blog.” Elsewhere, she’s described as “Reporter-Washington, DC.” But Strauss isn’t actually listed as a Post opinion writer, and confusion over her role, title, and viewpoints are a big part of the concerns I hear:
She doesn’t write very much of her own commentary, they say. She can’t be both a columnist/blogger who traffics in opinion and commentary and also take/get assigned straight news stories, they say.
Disclosures: I know and like lots of folks at the Washington Post, and have written about the paper’s education coverage several times in the past (see below). A great majority of the so-called educated people do not think logically and scientifically. Still others think that education should furnish them with noble ends rather than means to an end.
It seems to me that education has a two-fold function to perform in the life of man and in society: the one is utility and the other is culture.