Comments on: La crème de la crème http://educationnext.org/la-creme-de-la-creme/ Education Next is a journal of opinion and research about education policy. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:19:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: George Mitchell http://educationnext.org/la-creme-de-la-creme/comment-page-1/#comment-246 George Mitchell Sat, 26 Sep 2009 00:55:02 +0000 http://educationnext.org/?p=49629781#comment-246 This is a provocative and useful post. Hoxby, Peterson, Greene, Wolf, Howell, et. al., have pursued an intellectually honest tack. They portray apples and apples. But, is honest scholarship powerful? Despite prominent coverage of the Hoxby study in the Wall Street Journal (news and editorial), will the politics change? Will opponents of non-union charters reconsider their positon? I suspect not. If so, what is the appropriate response? This is a provocative and useful post.

Hoxby, Peterson, Greene, Wolf, Howell, et. al., have pursued an intellectually honest tack. They portray apples and apples.

But, is honest scholarship powerful? Despite prominent coverage of the Hoxby study in the Wall Street Journal (news and editorial), will the politics change? Will opponents of non-union charters reconsider their positon?

I suspect not. If so, what is the appropriate response?

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