{"id":2445,"date":"2010-09-13T08:31:41","date_gmt":"2010-09-13T12:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=2445"},"modified":"2010-09-13T15:54:31","modified_gmt":"2010-09-13T19:54:31","slug":"more-l-a-times-criticism-and-a-question-for-hechingers-richard-lee-colvin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=2445","title":{"rendered":"More L.A. Times criticism, and a question for Hechinger&#8217;s Richard Lee Colvin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A brief follow-up this morning to <a href=\"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=2363\">my criticism<\/a> of the Los Angeles Times&#39; disclosure of point estimates from a single model of teacher test-score raising prowess: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.danagoldstein.net\/dana_goldstein\/2010\/09\/what-jack-shafer-gets-wrong-about-the-la-times-teacher-database-controversy.html\">Dana Goldstein<\/a> points out that media critic Jack Shafer&#39;s commentary is factually wrong (as well as vicious), and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kingsburycenter.org\/blog\/johncronin\/2010\/09\/07\/la-times-teacher-rankings-and-code-journalistic-ethics\">Kingsbury Center&#39;s John Cronin<\/a> takes the same line I do with regard to the Society of Professional Journalists code of ethics and the Times&#39; choices. Aaron Pallas discussed what he called &quot;the cardinal sin&quot; on <a href=\"http:\/\/eyeoned.org\/content\/the-cardinal-sin-part-one_102\/\">September 2<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/eyeoned.org\/content\/the-cardinal-sin-part-two_106\/\">September 8<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One minor tidbit on underwriting: Pallas publishes his blog on the Hechinger Institute site. The <em>L.A. Times<\/em> series was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-schools-about-20100822,0,4367920.story\">underwritten by Hechinger<\/a>. Is Hechinger responsible for noting the questions raised about the ethics of its funded project?<\/p>\n<p>Note: Earlier today, I missed the passage in the <a href=\"http:\/\/hechingerreport.org\/content\/value-added-data-shows-which-los-angeles-teachers-go-unappreciated_4171\/\">Hechinger item on the series<\/a> that disclosed Hechinger&#39;s funding, an embarrassing error Aaron Pallas corrects in comments. Mea culpa. Pallas adds that Hechinger did not tell the Teachers College liaison board about the project until after the fact..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A brief follow-up this morning to my criticism of the Los Angeles Times&#39; disclosure of point estimates from a single model of teacher test-score raising prowess: Dana Goldstein points out that media critic Jack Shafer&#39;s commentary is factually wrong (as well as vicious), and the Kingsbury Center&#39;s John Cronin takes the same line I do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountability-frankenstein","category-education-policy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-Dr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2445"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2461,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445\/revisions\/2461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}