One of my ambitions is to do a piece blowing up the idea of performance measures. There is already a skeptical literature on it.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael Perelman Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 7:26 PM To: Progressive Economics Subject: Re: Re: [Pen-l] Charter schools Sean's post is one of the best I have seen in a long time here. I also appreciate David's input in provoking this debate. I just got out a department meeting in which we were told the extent of the cuts we face and the intrusive requirements for assessment, which will consume enormous resources while giving measurements which will be misleading at best. On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 03:42:27PM -0600, Sean Andrews wrote: > > > > I think you're missing the point: the goal is not to increase the > choice of the individual schoolchild: it is to increase the quality of > schooling for all school children. The innovations of some charters > might help to do this, but the way it is set up, it basically takes > money from the system that is required to serve everyone equally and > funnels it into the system with no such mandates. > -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu michaelperelman.wordpress.com _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
