What happens when my independent analysis indicates that your independence creates a sub-optimal state of affairs? Depending on how your research is commissioned, results and recommendations could be suppressed [link to post on independence] if they fail to match a particular doctrine. This is the next chapter in that story: One side proclaims your results are fundamental truth because they happen to match what that side has been saying and doing all along; the other side attacks on ideological grounds (presuming, of course, that the results are well founded and statistically sound) and finds all kinds of arguments against your research. It might not make sense to you that someone would ignore facts in favour of a position based on dogma; it might even make you cry. Independence and ideology usually try to steer well clear of one another but this is what happens if you put them in a lift together.
Keep your independence out of my business
Since 2010, American States have been adopting the Common Core State Standards Initiative, a federal education initiative that sets out learning goals for students at each grade level throughout the United States. The Initiative arose from concern about the academic achievements of students and represents a rare federal effort to standardise the knowledge and skills students should gain from formal education. However, the anti-federal sentiment in some states has led to a situation where opposition politicians are rejecting the Common Core on the basis that any federal programmes in an infringement on their independence in a populist bid for election. The Common Core standards were developed independently, objectively, based on sound and voluminous research evidence but some people would prefer to ignore them. “Keep your independence out of my family,” they seem to be saying. “I’m free to fail my children my own way if I want to.”
... more> http://bit.ly/1sM0vJX
You may leave the list at any time by sending the command
SIGNOFF allstat
to [log in to unmask], leaving the subject line blank.
|