More importantly, with enough prep, students can guess or remember enough to pick the right answer on multiple choice questions on some exams, which dont change that much. But they don’t really understand what they mean or the backbround or context. If they were studying and working as diligently as they should, they wouldnt have a problem passing most exams–some have been dumbed down in recent years.

60% of our kids who go to college flunk or drop out in the lst year or term–they can not handle the reading and writing and self-discipilne requirements. Prince doesn’t really discipline, just says teachers aren’t teaching the proper way if kids act up–which means that for 1o or 12 years or more no one knew how to teach? It’s a fraud. Teachers get fired if too many kids fail–it’s all about looking good in the mumbers. Stop the principal’s academy which lets people who have never taught be principals.

Per Quinnipiac via NBCNewYork…
July 28, Bloomberg leads Thompson 47-37, a gap of 10%.
Last month? Bloomberg led Thompson 54-32, a gap of 22%.

(Margin of error is +/- 2.7 percentage points.)

Note that with a 10% gap, only 5% have to change their minds…

Also,
“Voters are also getting fed up with the mayor’s campaign spending, which may help explain the shift. Sixty-one percent of voters agree Bloomberg’s spending is overkill – up from 56 percent last month, the poll found.”

Bloomberg’s a take-no-prisoners kind of guy. He’s shooting for a full 100%.

P.S. Did Carter quiz Wolfson re Bloomberg’s SlushFundGate?

“Village Voice reporter Wayne Barrett reported that the firm the Department of Education hired to audit their graduation data only validated the department’s numbers and didn’t investigate the information behind the transcripts.”

To explain: Back in its heyday, Edison Schools hired the RAND research firm to analyze its results. During the several years RAND was doing the research, Edison also had RAND do just just that kind of “audit” on the bogus and falsified achievement reports Edison released every year — verify the hard numbers, but not the information behind the numbers.

Then Edison would routinely claim that RAND had verified the reports. For that matter, Edison and its supporters generally claimed RAND had verified every OTHER lie Edison told during that time too — quite a goodly number. RAND patiently issued denials whenever it was asked.

Of course, the Bloomberg administration does include some of the same con artists who were involved in the Edison scam, so it should be no surprise that they’re engaging in the same shenanigans. The lies only prop them up for so long, though, as Edison learned.

The ultimate RAND report, by the way, was the old “mixed results” finding. Reportedly, it took several years past the initial target date to issue the report partly because of tough negotiations with Edison, which funded the report, over the language.

(
Edison is trying to make a comeback, though — I’m proposing that its corporate motto be “Fool Me Twice, Shame on Me” and have blogged about it here:

http://www.examiner.com/x-356-SF-Education-Examiner~y2009m7d31-Edison-Schools-Its-baaaaack-and-bringing-with-it-innovations-like-child-labor
)

Per Quinnipiac via NBCNewYork…
July 28, Bloomberg leads Thompson 47-37, a gap of 10%.
Last month? Bloomberg led Thompson 54-32, a gap of 22%.

(Margin of error is +/- 2.7 percentage points.)

Note that with a 10% gap, only 5% have to change their minds…

Also,
“Voters are also getting fed up with the mayor’s campaign spending, which may help explain the shift. Sixty-one percent of voters agree Bloomberg’s spending is overkill – up from 56 percent last month, the poll found.”
http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/politics/Thompson-Cuts-Bloombergs-Lead-in-Half-Poll-.html

Bloomberg’s a take-no-prisoners kind of guy. He’s shooting for a full 100%.

P.S. Did Carter quiz Wolfson re Bloomberg’s SlushFundGate?

Indeed, many of us WOULD like to talk about the data. As in whether the data are (HT to skoolboy) MEANINGFUL !!!

Unspun:
“If we can’t ACCEPT THE DATA AT FACE VALUE, I’m going to collect my marbles and go home.”
There, fixed it.

Wolfson is paid to crow about the sunrise, so his boss can take credit for it.