The talk of who went to what school seems beside the point.
The benefits of Pre-K seem indisputable to me.. As do the benefits of
reduced sugar consumption.
I did not focus on the benefits of Pre-K vis-a-vis the proposed tax
because I was never convinced the administration could competently
determine how to administer the receipts. But, since Martinez is trying
to gut education in NM, anything would be better than nothing.
Nor do I consider it elitist to advocate for improved health. If some
reduced their sugar consumption because it cost more, that would not be
a bad thing.
Separately, the idea that Michael Bloomberg spending $1MM of his own
money -- with no financial benefit to himself -- to support the tax here
is somehow equivalent to the soda distributors' spending large sums to
protect their own profits is ludicrous. Bloomberg is a genuine
billionaire who should be commended for his willingness to spend his own
money to advocate for causes he considers beneficial to all.
Joe
On 5/6/17 9:44 AM, Frank Wimberly wrote:
Let's summarize. I said I wish people would focus on the benefits of
pre-K education rather than the economic impacts of the tax and the
effects on diet. I mentioned that my wife, who went to graduate
school at the Harvard Ed School, is a big proponent of pre-K. Merle
said that I missed the point and that Jeff Skilling and Jared
Kushner's father also went to Harvard. I said that Ted K went to
Berkeley to make the case that having alumni in prison is irrelevant.
Merle says it's not.
My wife hates being mentioned in this context. Let me tell you a
little more. When she was at Harvard she worked with Jonathan Kozol
to improve educational opportunities for Puerto Rican toddlers in
South Boston. In Pittsburgh she worked in a therapeutic Headstart
program as head teacher to offer pre-K education to high risk kids
whose mothers were schizophrenic. They were 3-4 years old and at least
one of them witnessed the murder of her mother. They were mostly
African American and arrived at school very hungry. They ate at
school. This was done under the auspices of the University of
Pittsburgh Psychiatry Department. There's more but...
Frank
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Phone (505) 670-9918
On May 6, 2017 9:15 AM, "Marcus Daniels" <mar...@snoutfarm.com
<mailto:mar...@snoutfarm.com>> wrote:
Frank writes:
"Which notorious person went to which university? Why?"
It’s a question of fairness and consistency relative to values,
not a question of correct vs. incorrect.
Here are two more personal experiences which I doubt I really need
to give but I will for completeness.
1. A disruptive technology is reported in a peer-reviewed journal
which I argue is worth considering. I provide background (cited
papers), and my colleague skims over the affiliations over the
authors of those papers rather than reading the abstracts.
2. Our team arranges a meeting with a possible funding source and
have a pitch prepared with preliminary results and working
prototype code. First thing the person does is flip to the section
with the staff bios to see which universities they attended.
I could give many more examples of this kind of authority-based
selection that I see every day. I'm not arguing that there is
nothing to this approach, or that it is complete ineffectual. It
depends on what the deciders are optimizing for. One thing they
could be optimizing is to ensure their collaborators are
presentable and demonstrate a baseline of intelligence, and
certain breadth and depth of knowledge.
However, when such a person that otherwise would passes muster,
puts out a document that starts from fairly common premises to
surprising conclusions, that chain of reasoning might be subject
to consideration. Sure, if there is more context, like knowing in
retrospect that the person was guilty of murder, then that may or
may not cause them to discard consideration of the argument.
For me, it makes me more interested in understanding the motives
and reasoning and to make sure I convince myself I have an idea of
where they lost it.
Marcus
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