Recovered ASCD member quit 5 yrs ago From: "Regnier, Paul (Burkholder)" To: mphilip@bellsouth.net, Dan & Judy Konieczko Copies to: Education Consumers , Walt Rumery , Virginia Baxt , Marilyn Keller Rittmeyer Subject: RE: ASCD Marketing Date sent: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 08:23:16 -0500 I am another recovered ASCD member. I quit about 5 years ago after about 10 years as a member. Actually, in my experience, they do publish the occasional piece reporting solid research or reflecting informed and intelligent thought, but most of their stuff is very well-presented claptrap. Their production values (in their magazine, Educational Leadership, their books, their conferences, and their tapes) are very high. It is the quality of the thinking that goes into all these materials that is so bad. The real problem is that ASCD (like much of what passes for the "education profession") has no intellectual standards. People who come to this profession from training in an actual academic field (e.g., E. D. Hirsch) usually are appalled by what passes for "research" and "professional activities" in the education profession. -----Original Message----- From: Murray J. Philip [SMTP:mphilip@bellsouth.net] Sent: Sunday, February 01, 1998 2:44 PM To: Dan & Judy Konieczko Cc: Education Consumers; Walt Rumery; Virginia Baxt; Marilyn Keller Rittmeyer Subject: Re: ASCD Marketing I think you have discovered why I have resigned from both ASCD and TASCD. The sum total of everything that they print and advocate falls within the parameters of your post. Things that do not support this CULT ideology never see the light of day in their conversations or printed material. Date sent: Sun, 01 Feb 1998 11:56:55 -0500 To: joaneb001@aol.com From: Fred Battey Subject: Fwd:SCHOOLS FOR THE 21st CENTURY Subj: Report to Washington Legislature - Schools 21st Centu Date: 98-01-31 22:11:07 EST From: sitler@plix.com (Roxanne Sitler) To: fredb001@aol.com File: SCHOOLsf.doc (123904 bytes) DL Time (TCP/IP): < 1 minute Dear loop: The attached file is the body of the presentation three Washington researchers (including myself) did January 29th on the FAILED pilot program, "Schools for the 21st Century" As I have stated before, this was introduced and passed into law while Booth Gardner was governor (1987), who had hired Tucker as a consultant to his staff - this was a TUCKER pilot and we have documentation that America 2000/NASDC used this legislation as a foundation for their program. The new "performance-based" assessment ( the kind of test developed to measure thier "new definition of student learning") in the state has proven that these schools involved scored BELOW the more traditional schools who were not involved in these reform theories, as were the C21 schools since 1987. This should be national news. We have experienced a reluctance by the media to catch on to this story even though a Senator did a wonderful editorial exposing this. So far that editorial was printed in only one state newspaper even though it was sent out statewide. Our presentation was even denied coverage on the state version of CSPAN. Two state Senators hired, out of their own pockets, a video company to come in and video the presentation. We are going to make the video available soon. This presentation was based on the document (compiled by Peter Holly - also key in Iowa and Kentucky) which never saw the light of day - it was never turned into the resource document that was supposed to have the evidence to support the REQUIREMENT OF THE LAW that this pilot show that student learning had improved - their evidence is purely antedotal - no wonder they didn't want this document out. This document which was 782 pages of loose handwritten notes was transcribed by Lynn Stuter and given to the legislature so that they could see exactly what goes on in the classroom under education restructuring. Nothing is held back in this document - the true story is here and it is frightening. Roxanne