Comments on: The Persuadable Public

By: How do you increase support for more education spending? Don’t let people know how much we spend now « Modeled Behavior

Sun, 26 Sep 2010 01:17:33 +0000

[...] teacher salaries the last thing he should be doing is telling people how much teachers make. A 2009 survey by Education Next and Harvard’s Program on Education Policy and Governance surveyed 3,000 [...]

By: Dr. Allah Bakhsh Malik

Dr. Allah Bakhsh Malik — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 03:32:29 +0000

The heartless and self opinionated bureaucracy would never let the public schools become quality schools. We need people with indomitable stoic determination at educational leadership level for secure and quality service delivery in education. For quality education, there has to be a nice mix of good text books, qualified, satisfied, competent and reflexive teachers working in a conducive teaching-learning environment with positive externalities. How quickly we can get this nice mix in place will be deterimental towards the education of our future generations

By: John

John — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:23:11 +0000

As Al said, the key to achievement is targeting literacy. I hope we can solve this problem ASAP.

By: The Bully Pulpit: The Master and His Apprentice « BLOGCEA

The Bully Pulpit: The Master and His Apprentice « BLOGCEA — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 18:26:46 +0000

[...] public is influenced by voices of powerful figures such as the president in an article entitled, “The Persuadable Public” Consider this analysis of their findings on the issue of “Merit Pay” and President [...]

By: Education Policy: Popularity contest gone awry? « American Maggie

Education Policy: Popularity contest gone awry? « American Maggie — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 02:52:13 +0000

[...] is another explanation. Another recent poll, this one conducted for the education policy journal Education Next, tested the theory that public [...]

By: Al Rode

Al Rode — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 02:08:35 +0000

The persistent failure by our government to address poor quality textbooks in the classroom will upend any top-down reform effort. Heartless bureaucrats. The key to achievement is targeting literacy. May all your research prove me right.

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 17:01:09 +0000

I am surprised that the vote was weaker for increasing teachers’ salaries when the voters were given information on current wages. I’m interested to know what specific wage information was given to the participants.