User talk:Labourdemand

Labourdemand (talk) 07:58, 28 April 2014 (UTC)Pages related to Hanushek: The history of changes show a persistent effort to distort the positions of Hanushek. Wherever possible, one particular editor tries to insert political language -- such as always using notions of only focus on test scores. Additionally, there is a concerted effort downplay the scientific research.


 * Editor Labourdemand, I believe you are mistaken. I have no vendetta against Professor Hanushek. I am only interested in clear language. Basically, the article was full of euphemisms circumlocutions and obfuscations. To give an example, to me "identify and replace" is synonymous with "fire", but am glad to use "identify and replace" if you consider it prejudicial to the work of Dr. Hanushek. I am puzzled that you would consider it "political" to suggest that Hanushek's research does not focus on using a metric based on student test scores to evaluate teachers. This seems to me the basic thrust of his recommendations. Why would anyone wish to deny this obvious fact (one might almost call it a truism).


 * The citations I removed from charts on government spending did not support the statement in the article. Perhaps in my haste, I misread them (they are available on the web). If you can show me how they support the statements I will be glad to see them restored. I don't have them in front of me, but as I recall, one of them was not even on the topic of government spending.173.52.250.208 (talk) 19:19, 28 April 2014 (UTC) 173.52.250.208 (talk)