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In a methodological, data-backed post Gary Rubinstein refutes what he sees as the four major points of Class Warfare, and by extension, corporate reform.

Fifty years from now it will be interesting to reread this book with the hindsight of what happened.  I believe that soon the ed reform ‘bubble’ will burst.  All the invented gains will be exposed and those who participated in the cover up will be banished to obscurity.  We all will finally realize that early childhood education is a much worthier investment of money than test prep and accountability.  We will give up on ‘value-added’ measures when we realize that they will be too costly to ever be accurate enough to tell us anything better than principal observations already do.  We will look back at the remedies proposed by the reformers the way we now look back at the use of leeches to cure diseases.

 I wish that I could say that I saw the bubble about to burst, too. Instead, I think I might be stuck inside it.