Stop doing the wrong things in education

evince said:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_Ravitch



Writings and statements on education[edit]

Ravitch critiqued the punitive uses of accountability to fire teachers and close schools, as well as replacing public schools with charter schools and relying on superstar teachers, in The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Undermine Education (2010). In the book Ravitch sharply broke with policies she had formerly espoused[9] and the book became a surprise best seller a month after its release. One reviewer wrote "Ravitch exhibits an interesting mix of support for public education and the rights of teachers to bargain collectively with a tough-mindedness that some on the pedagogical left lack."[10]

While she originally supported No Child Left Behind and charter schools, Ravitch later became "disillusioned," and wrote, "I no longer believe that either approach will produce the quantum improvement in American education that we all hope for." In the major national evaluation, 17% of charters got higher scores, 46% were no different, and 37% were significantly worse than public schools, she said. High-stakes testing, "utopian" goals, "draconian" penalties, school closings, privatization, and charter schools didn't work, she concluded. "The best predictor of low academic performance is poverty—not bad teachers."[11]

Ravitch said that the charter school and testing reform movement was started by "right wing think tanks like the Heritage Foundation," for the purpose of destroying public education and teachers' unions.[12] She reviewed the documentary Waiting for Superman, directed by Davis Guggenheim, as "propagandistic" (pro-charter schools and anti-public schools), studded with "myths" and at least one "flatly wrong" claim.[13] Of Education Secretary Arne Duncan's Race to the Top program, Ravitch said in a 2011 interview it "is an extension of No Child Left Behind ...[,] all bad ideas." She concluded "We are destroying our education system, blowing it up by these stupid policies. And handing the schools in low-income neighborhoods over to private entrepreneurs does not, in itself, improve them. There's plenty of evidence by now that the kids in those schools do no better, and it's simply a way of avoiding their - the public responsibility to provide good education."[14
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Hmmmm... "utopian" goals, "draconian" penalties...sounds like obamacare!
 
I Love America said:
You are a liar. You did not

And I wasn't short the entire year liar. You also forget the 5% drop which I profited from as well as shorting gold which you missed

Now stop PMing me. I don't want to buy your Beanie Babies
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AVOID the never ending circle of stupidity with the Douche; he is here merely to be mocked for his trolling and ignorance. Do not engage the dimwit.
 
BTW now would be a good time to short Apple. Looks like Toppy gonna add to his Apple losses.

If/when the S&P closes below 1775, then 1750 is next support level. Then we may even be looking at 1600

Too bad Toppypoopyspin doesn't have the balls to make a public prediction.
 
I Love America said:
BTW now would be a good time to short Apple. Looks like Toppy gonna add to his Apple losses.

If/when the S&P closes below 1775, then 1750 is next support level. Then we may even be looking at 1600

Too bad Toppypoopyspin doesn't have the balls to make a public prediction.
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I'll take apple vs your short
After all I have 250,000 in the stock
 
I Love America said:
BTW now would be a good time to short Apple. Looks like Toppy gonna add to his Apple losses.

If/when the S&P closes below 1775, then 1750 is next support level. Then we may even be looking at 1600

Too bad Toppypoopyspin doesn't have the balls to make a public prediction.
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You do have balls if not smarts shorting after 5 straight down days
 
The Dude said:
I'll take apple vs your short
After all I have 250,000 in the stock
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Bullshit. You do not have $250,000 in the stock. That would be 25% of your supposed portfolio.

Considering it is down 25% since you bought it! that would mean that there is no way you made $180,000 this past year.

You are either lying or you allowed yourself to lose $62,500 on your Apple buy. Only a dumb fuck like you could lose money on Apple.

Apple is a great company but there is a right time to buy and a wrong time. You picked the wrong time dumbass and are too ignorant to use stop losses.

Shit as we stand right now, my short trades have outperformed your Apple trade. I lost 5% on my shorts of the S&P so you have to catch up by 20% dumb fuck.
 
I Love America said:
Bullshit. You do not have $250,000 in the stock. That would be 25% of your supposed portfolio.

Considering it is down 25% since you bought it! that would mean that there is no way you made $180,000 this past year.

You are either lying or you allowed yourself to lose $62,500 on your Apple buy. Only a dumb fuck like you could lose money on Apple.

Apple is a great company but there is a right time to buy and a wrong time. You picked the wrong time dumbass and are too ignorant to use stop losses.

Shit as we stand right now, my short trades have outperformed your Apple trade. I lost 5% on my shorts of the S&P so you have to catch up by 20% dumb fuck.
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I was at a mil long time ago
I'm up 300,000 since I retired
Redo the math
Fag
 
The Dude said:
I was at a mil long time ago
I'm up 300,000 since I retired
Redo the math
Fag
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When did you retire bitch?

You claim to be up $180,000 this year. That means you only made $120,000 combined the rest of the years.

Haven't you learned by now that I am too smart for your lying ass?
 
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