Education Secretary Arne Duncan has trashed Texas schools, but Texas gets great bang for the buck.
7th September 2011
The Obama administration made what was supposed to be a pre-emptive strike on Texas Governor Rick Perry, but which turned out to be, in baseball terms, a “swing … and a miss.” The administration unleashed Education Secretary Arne Duncan to attack Texas’s record on education, with Duncan saying he feels “very, very badly for the children.” When pressed to explain precisely what Texas has done wrong on education, Duncan came up a bit short on specifics. The Education Secretary’s arguments have generated a lot of useful discussion across the web, but I thought I would throw some rudimentary data analysis into the picture.
Not really news, but a useful reminder. Crustian bureaucrats are no more a dependable source of information than Crustian media; neither can be trusted without independent corroboration.
September 7th, 2011 at 15:50
I don’t see what’s so bad about Texas education: they teach you how to shoot, they teach you how not to trip over your own pointy-toed boots, they teach you how to start a fight in a bar after downing six Buds in 30 minutes–what else does a child need to know?
September 7th, 2011 at 16:08
And you know this from your extensive experience with Texas education. I see.
September 7th, 2011 at 18:29
Since it’s what they seem to know best, I just assumed they learned it in school.