Higher Education Coalition attack on [Texas Gov. Rick] Perry raises eyebrows .....Many grass-roots conservatives, meanwhile, are praising Perry for taking on the higher education bureaucracy. “Those of us who are attending our state's universities or who have recently graduated know that our current system of higher education is morally bankrupt,” said Tony McDonald, senior vice president of the Young Conservatives of Texas. “The system puts undergraduate education on a back-burner in favor of the mass publication of largely useless scholarly articles. The system consumes large sums of tax revenue, while saddling graduates with massive student-loan debt. It is refreshing to see Governor Perry take the bold step of calling out our universities and demanding that they implement reform and accountability measures which will serve to protect both students and taxpayers.”....
If the Schools Mafia is mad at him, good!
Texas schools suck.
And we thought it was going to be Obama who ran in 2012 on a bash-Bush platform.
BUT is Perry a progressive like Bush?, all the Bushs are?..
I say YES... Perry is a progressive poseur...
You must have made a fortune today, Cincinatus’ Wife,
posting for the RINO Perry (or are you in the Keep?).
So how many little girls did you watch get MANDATED
Gardasil from your RINO-Perry's Executive order?
How much time in advance were you aware this was coming?
ALERT!!!! Like Bush, perry is a Globalist, a One wo4rlder. Is anyone listening to Jan Markell right now. She is talking today about how Obama is ushering the Muslim Brotherhood into our blessed country! Communism, Socialism, Fascism and Islam are all segments of the New World Order! What Bush 41 and 43 promoted with their New World Order is being finally carried out by Muslim Barack Hussein Obama! SHE IS ON YOUR LOCAL FM RADIO. tune it in!
Thank you for championing Perry.
He surely is the Establishment candidate, but at least he can send zero packing back to Pockestahn and end this nightmare.
I think I finally learned that it’s not as important WHO is president as it is the people agree with and implement the president’s good ideas. The POTUS cannot remove a bureaucracy (or an entrenched state legislature, or a corrupt police force); only the people can.
‘Bully Pulpit’ is a serious concept and we need it again, now.
all day pre-kindergarten helps keeps kids from dropping out??
Silly me, I thought you had to be 16 to drop out. lol.
Any penny that starves the Public Indoctrination System should be counted as ten fold investment in insuring education over indoctrination.
Wow, this could lead to a real school voucher system and an end to tyranny of the Teachers Unions.
Perry is lauded as a Conservative Hope but I keep seeing things like this. More money for education. And in the real world performance is mostly in inverse relation to amount of money spent. And Perry does not show that he actually understands Economics. So, like Bush, he generally wants the right things to happen but he does not know how to get there. Ultimately he will believe he has to "nudge" the economy over to the right track which tactic will, of course prove to be self=defeating and require ever firmer nudges. Palin and Bachmann both have all these disturbing little facets to their careers thus far. Ron Paul is still the only candidate or possible candidate who demonstrates that he understands how the economy actually works.
Perry is lauded as a Conservative Hope but I keep seeing things like this. More money for education. And in the real world performance is mostly in inverse relation to amount of money spent. And Perry does not show that he actually understands Economics. So, like Bush, he generally wants the right things to happen but he does not know how to get there. Ultimately he will believe he has to "nudge" the economy over to the right track which tactic will, of course prove to be self=defeating and require ever firmer nudges. Perry and Bachmann both have all these disturbing little facets to their careers thus far. Ron Paul is still the only candidate or possible candidate who demonstrates that he understands how the economy actually works.
Although there is some of the usual IowaHawk humor interspersed, the article uses available statistics to compare the highly unionized Wisconsin school system to Texas schools.
Some excerpts...
As a son of Iowa, I'm no stranger to bragging about my home state's ranking on various standardized test. Like Wisconsin we Iowans usually rank near the top of the heap on average ACT/SAT scores. We are usually joined there by Minnesota, Nebraska, and the various Dakotas; Vermont, Maine, New Hampshire...
... beginning to see a pattern? Perhaps because a state's “average ACT/SAT” is, for all intents and purposes, a proxy for the percent of white people who live there. In fact, the lion's share of state-to-state variance in test scores is accounted for by differences in ethnic composition. Minority students - regardless of state residence - tend to score lower than white students on standardized test, and the higher the proportion of minority students in a state the lower its overall test scores tend to be.
Please note: this has nothing to do with innate ability or aptitude. Quite to the contrary, I believe the test gap between minority students and white students can be attributed to differences in socioeconomic status. And poverty. And yes, racism. And yes, family structure. Whatever combination of reasons, the gap exists, and it's mathematical sophistry to compare the combined average test scores in a state like Wisconsin (4% black, 4% Hispanic) with a state like Texas (12% black, 30% Hispanic).
So how to compare educational achievement between two states with such dissimilar populations? In data analysis this is usually done by treating ethnicity as a “covariate.” A very simple way to do this is by comparing educational achievement between states within the same ethnic group. In other words, do black students perform better in Wisconsin than Texas? Do Hispanic students perform better in Wisconsin or Texas? White students? If Wisconsin's kids consistently beat their Texas counterparts, after controlling for ethnicity, then there's a strong case that maybe Texas schools ought to become a union shop.
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2009 4th Grade Math
White students: Texas 254, Wisconsin 250 (national average 248)
Black students: Texas 231, Wisconsin 217 (national 222)
Hispanic students: Texas 233, Wisconsin 228 (national 227)
2009 8th Grade Math
White students: Texas 301, Wisconsin 294 (national 294)
Black students: Texas 272, Wisconsin 254 (national 260)
Hispanic students: Texas 277, Wisconsin 268 (national 260)
...
To recap: white students in Texas perform better than white students in Wisconsin, black students in Texas perform better than black students in Wisconsin, Hispanic students in Texas perform better than Hispanic students in Wisconsin. In 18 separate ethnicity-controlled comparisons, the only one where Wisconsin students performed better than their peers in Texas was 4th grade science for Hispanic students (statistically insignificant), and this was reversed by 8th grade. Further, Texas students exceeded the national average for their ethnic cohort in all 18 comparisons; Wisconsinites were below the national average in 8, above average in 8.
Read more...
http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/2011/03/longhorns-17-badgers-1.html
You seem to have picked up a few stalkers. /s