tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7719550.post7221109085680877020..comments2023-11-13T04:55:40.769-05:00Comments on Tuttle SVC: The Importance of Picking on "No Excuses" ChartersTom Hoffmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08577165613934129833noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7719550.post-14181826600583433472010-10-04T20:57:11.177-04:002010-10-04T20:57:11.177-04:00The Valerie Strauss article, which was a nuanced a...The Valerie Strauss <a href="http://voices.washingtonpost.com/answer-sheet/school-turnaroundsreform/obama-and-the-elephant-part-2.html" rel="nofollow">article</a>, which was a nuanced analysis, said that HCZ was on the right track. I'm wondering if there is a problem of lumping different "standards" reformers together as "right wing" as a sort of defence of "progressivism", rather than a real sorting out of what represents progress?<br /><br />I think the problem is that scaling across the whole system can't work - because social class is bigger than other factors - but from the perspective of disadvantaged kids something like the HCZ model (I don't know all of its details but from the little I have read Canada is good), which does require a radical break from normality, is necessary<br /><br />Something similar is being tried by Noel Pearson in Cape York - extremely disadvantaged area. From his perspective there is no other real option but to sit back and watch the kids be destroyed by welfare dependency, drug abuse etc. Hence, some "progressives" label him as right wing because he does make alliances with the devil to achieve progress for the most disadvantaged indigenous - australians. Whereas the progressives are better on the rhetoric but don't achieve much in practice.Bill Kerrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00206808014093631762noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7719550.post-39061872036969618232010-10-02T11:32:27.075-04:002010-10-02T11:32:27.075-04:00Firehose was a major improvement. Fromohio was ano...Firehose was a major improvement. Fromohio was another solid set; it seemed to be cut from the same cloth rather than a true progression.<br /><br />Wait, am I on the right thread? I was supposed to be commenting on the Ironandwine version of Flaminglips.garretthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01840261189386044555noreply@blogger.com