Klarinet Archive - Posting 000136.txt from 2006/04

From: "Karl Krelove" <karlkrelove@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Business aspects of music performance & education
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2006 18:51:17 -0400

In this case, by the time the actual "proof" is in, if my opinion (and those
of others who share the same view) turns out to have been right the disaster
I see coming will already have arrived. Unfortunately, this is not a
controlled laboratory experiment in a closed environment, and if the
"experimenters" - the Federal officials who have concocted NCLB and pressed
for its legislative passage - turn out to be incorrect in their hypothesis,
i.e. that every child will be academically successful by 2014 if the
prescription is followed, the mess that will be left will take years to
clean up and we will be no closer to a real solution to the real problem.

It's hard for me to watch that happen, and it isn't possible for me to
reserve judgment when so much is at stake and the logic seems to me to be so
flawed.

Karl

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dee Flint [mailto:deeflint01@-----.net]
> Sent: Saturday, April 15, 2006 6:09 PM
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: Re: [kl] Business aspects of music performance & education
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Karl Krelove" <karlkrelove@-----.net>
> To: <klarinet@-----.org>
> Sent: Saturday, April 15, 2006 5:20 PM
> Subject: RE: [kl] Business aspects of music performance & education
>
>
> >
> >
>
> [snip]
>
> >
> > I think our views of the problem are in agreement. It's our
> respective
> > views
> > of *this* solution that seem so diametrically opposed.
> >
> > Karl
> >
>
> I pass no judgment whatsoever on this particular program.
> There is simply
> insufficient data to determine whether it will work or not.
> The arguments
> that I have seen to date have been based solely on opinions
> or very limited
> anecdotal stories rather than concrete data. All approaches
> can be shown as
> bad if only opinions and anecdotes are used as the "proof."
>
> Dee
>
>

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