The Straw Men of Educational Reform
July 9, 2008 by Cato
Filed under Education, Maryland, Maryland Politics, National Politics
Opponents of true educational reform (the teachers’ unions and their left wing allies) seem to have only one form of weapon – straw men. You would think that in the course of earning all those Masters degrees and PhD’s, these folks would have learned that “the straw man” is a classic fallacy.
Wednesday’s Daily Times provides an editorial that infers proponents of merit pay want to base such a proposal on raw test scores. STRAW MAN. Proponents of merit pay for teachers want OBJECTIVE criteria for the award of merit pay. One common proposal is to use IMPROVEMENT in test scores as one measure. There is a big difference.
As the Daily Times notes with its clever burlap and silk analogy, merit pay based on test scores would not be fair:
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