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If you saw the Sunday Seattle Times, it was like when Diana died,
they gave nearly half of the 1st section to his life and death.


For a contrary view, David Blomstrom is a Seattle Teacher who may be
Stanford's leading critic.  http://www.geobop.com/Education.htm
http://www.geobop.com/Education/JS/Home.htm tribute to John Stanford


Here's a msnbc bulletin board discussion
bbs.msnbc.com/bbs/localking/index.asp


Stanford truly embodies the problem with education when people like a
guy who makes everybody feel empowered and positive better than a guy
who simply know what he's doing like Thaddeus Lott or Jaime Escalante
who actually delivers poor kids with high test scores.


He was a great hero and saint, but not a good superintendent.


Stanford called for requiring a C average to graduate when the black
gpa average is less than a C, called for teachers to spend 1 day a
week outside the classroom, and called for staffers to spend 1 day
off the job helping in the classroom. The Seattle Time claims test
scores are up, but if it's the WASL, every school in the state jumped
by 50%, mostly likely because the test was 50% easier, not because of
Stanford, and even norm-referenced test scores were rising under the
unpopular white guy they had before. The schools with the highest
percentages of blacks and hispanics consistently show up on the
bottom of either the WASL or CTBS tests.


Stanford never completed any formal plan for reform.


Unfortunately, his death will be even more enthusiam for more
of the same instead of a frank assessement of how Stanford
really peformed.


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At 05:35 PM 12/1/98 -0800, you wrote:


"Hey, did you ever get a web page going? Put me on your mailing list again."


Web page? My "GeoEducation" site is still online. The main URL is now
<http://www.geobop.com/Education.htm>http://www.geobop.com/Education.htm


The John Stanford home page is
<http://www.geobop.com/Education/JS/Home.htm>http://www.geobop.com/Education
/JS/Home.htm


Have you checked out the e-mail discussion yet at
bbs.msnbc.com/bbs/localking/index.asp
???


I'm desperately hoping someone will add their voice to mine. Mr. Mak says he's
going to post something this evening. As long as I'm the only one speaking
out,
I'm going to be perceived as a wacko, no matter what a say. Actually, I've
already converted two or three former Stanford fans. But it's still hard
bucking the Seattle Establishment and national media!


I have no plans on resuming "GeoNews." It was a good idea and experience,
but I
kind of flaked out towards the end. I failed miserably at getting any two-way
communication going and finally got sick of hearing nothing but my own
ranting.
The silence in this city is deafening, isn't it?