My E-Mail Exchange With "Socrates" on CMOs and the CMO Study
The blog audience can learn as much through debate as by reading one person's view of the issues, maybe more. The medium permits the audience to respond to a blogger's prognostications in real time or at their leisure. It's an incredible opportunity for good arguments to rise to the top rather than well connected people. Time consuming as this can be, I think it's important to participate in and facilitate these debates.
Below, I've posted a discussion with the anonymous Socrates, prompted by his posting on my quotes in Scott Cech's article in EdWeek on the Mathematica/CRPE study of CMOs sponsored by Gates through New Schools. I don't know if Socrates has an audience of one or one million, but that really didn't matter. In my view he or she raised points worth discussing. Once I think we reached a point where viewers could come to their own conclusions, I left the field. I'm not trying to convince my counterparts to change their minds, only to get the arguments fleshed for others..
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