Comments on: Department of Efficiency http://www.eduwonk.com/2008/07/department-of-efficiency.html Education News, Analysis, and Commentary Fri, 05 Dec 2008 05:03:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Anonymous http://www.eduwonk.com/2008/07/department-of-efficiency.html#comment-986 Anonymous Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:01:00 +0000 http://www.eduwonk.com/wordpress/2008/07/department-of-efficiency.html#comment-986 Brilliant, as usual! You do realize that the UFT survey was modeled after the NYC learning environment survey, which was an integral part of Klein's own report card/accountability system. Incidentally, that survey did not contain only one question.<br/><br/>I imagine they did this quite purposefully, to deflect the usual "union surveys have no credibility" criticism. But they probably should have anticipated that even a sample size of 60,000+ and a survey designed after the city's own would not be enough to satisfy the angry blame-the-union-for everything crowd. Brilliant, as usual! You do realize that the UFT survey was modeled after the NYC learning environment survey, which was an integral part of Klein’s own report card/accountability system. Incidentally, that survey did not contain only one question.

I imagine they did this quite purposefully, to deflect the usual “union surveys have no credibility” criticism. But they probably should have anticipated that even a sample size of 60,000+ and a survey designed after the city’s own would not be enough to satisfy the angry blame-the-union-for everything crowd.

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