{"id":5368,"date":"2012-05-24T15:36:08","date_gmt":"2012-05-24T20:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/xblog\/?p=3609"},"modified":"2012-05-24T15:36:08","modified_gmt":"2012-05-24T20:36:08","slug":"romney-on-how-to-fix-edumication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/24\/romney-on-how-to-fix-edumication\/","title":{"rendered":"Romney on How To Fix Edumication"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First, dismantle public school funding.  That was pandering to the charter school people he was sitting with.  Second, more &#8220;no child left behind&#8221; type policies.  Third, increase classroom size.  Because classroom size doesn&#8217;t matter.  Fourth, cancel teacher improvement programs.  <\/p>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/player.ooyala.com\/player.js?height=255&#038;embedCode=9oOTF0NDqln2iGiXNzP6w_PCZ0t1SXmd&#038;deepLinkEmbedCode=9oOTF0NDqln2iGiXNzP6w_PCZ0t1SXmd&#038;video_pcode=BjMW06iecUOEhEKw8wym0AKLeiI4&#038;width=454\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/election-2012\/post\/romney-visits-inner-city-charter-school-in-philadelphia-in-outreach-to-black-voters\/2012\/05\/24\/gJQAWBWYnU_blog.html\">From the Washington Post<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>During the roundtable session, Romney said there was no correlation between classroom size and student performance, citing a report by consulting firm McKinsey &#038; Company. That sparked a debate with some educators and other leaders around the table.<br \/>\n\u201cI can\u2019t think of any teacher in the whole time I\u2019ve been teaching, for 10 years, 13 years, who would say that more students [in the classroom] would benefit,\u201d said Steven Morris, a music teacher at the school. \u201cAnd I can\u2019t think of a parent that would say I would like my teacher to be in a room with a lot of kids and only one teacher.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes, some studies showed that but as far as I can tell, they were comparing class sizes that were too big with class sizes that were way too big.  Turns out there is not much difference between totally broken and way totally broken.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, dismantle public school funding. That was pandering to the charter school people he was sitting with. Second, more &#8220;no child left behind&#8221; type policies. Third, increase classroom size. Because classroom size doesn&#8217;t matter. Fourth, cancel teacher improvement programs. From the Washington Post: During the roundtable session, Romney said there was no correlation between classroom &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/24\/romney-on-how-to-fix-edumication\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Romney on How To Fix Edumication<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[183],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1oA","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5368"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}