{"id":716,"date":"2006-09-13T22:05:22","date_gmt":"2006-09-14T02:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=716"},"modified":"2006-09-13T22:05:22","modified_gmt":"2006-09-14T02:05:22","slug":"my-students-are-smarter-than-ed-policy-wonkish-types-including-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=716","title":{"rendered":"My students are smarter than ed-policy wonkish types (including me)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight, my students have made fools of us all&#151;or those of us who have talked and written and read about vouchers for the last 17 years, since the creation of the Milwaukee program. That&#8217;s all. We&#8217;ve been talking about public-private comparisons, competition, sample attrition, and the like, and we&#8217;ve been forgetting about the complex, lived experiences of families who go <em>between<\/em> sectors, sometimes multiple times. We&#8217;ve been debating gold standards and platinum standards of research, drive-by research and how-sly research, and as far as I&#8217;m aware there is only <a href=\"http:\/\/ceep.indiana.edu\/projects\/PDF\/200602_Clev_Summary.pdf\">one<\/a> longitudinal study going on that follows a population of <em>resident<\/em> children through <em>whatever<\/em> schools they attend in an environment with vouchers.  And in the focus on a limited set of questions and limited resources, there is an enormous amount of unused information from the IU study of the Cleveland voucher program.<br \/>\nAs a research community, are we so devoid of imagination that the transition between sectors ends our involvement with a family in most of the voucher studies?  Is our view of voucher research so sterile that we are more interested in proving a point than in describing lives?<br \/>\nAnd why should it take a few students in a masters class, relatively untrained in research, to point out the obvious?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight, my students have made fools of us all&#151;or those of us who have talked and written and read about vouchers for the last 17 years, since the creation of the Milwaukee program. That&#8217;s all. We&#8217;ve been talking about public-private comparisons, competition, sample attrition, and the like, and we&#8217;ve been forgetting about the complex, lived [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","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":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-policy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-by","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716","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=716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}