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To: mph who wrote (15017)	3/24/2006 4:19:26 PM
From: Dale Baker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541299

Just to interject one of my general pet peeves about any discussion on education - they all dance from one broad generality to another, painting some as good and some as bad and leaving an air that we just need a few more good big concepts and fewer bad ones, then all will be well. Then I look at 50 state boards of education, thousands of local school boards, who knows how many hundreds of thousands of schools and millions of teachers and staff, and more millions of students from all walks of life and all economic levels and now all ethnic backgrounds, and I ask myself how any generality can be either deduced from or applicable to such a huge seething mass? Anyone with any training in social science analysis knows how complex a model you need to come up with any kind of conclusion that holds up to analytical scrutiny. That's why I rarely if ever find a discussion about education that goes beyond fairly simplistic moralizing. I don't have the complex answers myself but I have this notion they are out there. The simple pattycake with who's been naughty and who's been nice just goes in circles and doesn't tell us anything.