Matt Yglesias

14 Responses to “Polling the Education Issue”

1. Capitol Dome Says:
   August 13th, 2008 at 10:55 am

   Matt,

   I think you meant “socioeconomic integration policies,” not “socioeconomic immigration policies.”

2. bluesmoke Says:
   August 13th, 2008 at 11:50 am

   if “socioeconomic integration policies” = busing students to places their parents do not consider SAFE. It is a DEAD issue has ZERO chance to succeed.

3. skiddie Says:
   August 13th, 2008 at 2:28 pm

   I think the public split on NCLB is partly due to the fact that most people know much about it. I pay a lot of attention to politics, but pretty much all I know about NCLB’s policies is that it imposes testing requirements– and that it’s the doctrinal left position to oppose it, so I oppose it. Beyond that… meh.

   I would guess that support for NCLB stay pretty closely with party identification. (as well as, presumably, satisfaction with your local school)

4. cmholm Says:
   August 13th, 2008 at 3:11 pm

   Sometimes I can get away without RTFA, but not this time. Is Matt texting these in on his cell? My handset usually guesses wrong on word completions, too.

   bluesmoke: I dunno if it’s any more the assumption of safety than quality of instruction, or (thinking back to L.A.) spending two hours a day on a bus when there’s a school a few blocks away. But, I’ll agree, bussing in major metro areas is probably DOA.

   skiddie: in my neck of the woods, opposition to NCLB as delivered is because our state picked one of the harder tests to begin with, and then upped the testing standards last year. So, even though the students were improving, more schools weren’t making the (new) grade. This, in a state with many transients, and a lot of ESL students.

   The practical effect of a school not making the grade two years running is that the state appoints a team of consultants to review and revamp their processes. The school staff spends a day per week in training, and the kids go down to four days of instruction, and a school year is completely shot.

5. SLC Says:
   August 13th, 2008 at 4:30 pm

   NCLB had one and only one purpose, that was the elimination of the public school system. Attached link to a thread on Prof. Jason Rosenhouses’ blog details the facts.

   http://scienceblogs.com/evolutionblog/2007/08/leaving_children_behind.php

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