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Don't Kid Yourself
07/01/08
04:42:00 am, Categories: Announcements [A] A double standard of morality also emerged when other people were arbitrarily divided in two groups and given differently colored wristbands. They watched as one person, either from their group or from the other group, went through the exercise and assigned himself the easy job. Even though the observers had no personal stake in the outcome — they knew they would not be stuck with the boring job — they were still biased.
On average, they judged it to be unfair for someone in the other group to give himself the easy job, but they considered it fair when someone in their own group did the same thing.
If a colored wristband is enough to skew your moral judgment, imagine how you are affected by the “D” or the “R” label on your voting registration.
- People who staunchly supported school desegregation vigorously oppose public school choice.
- Activists who rally in the abstract for better "child care" want an outright repeal of NCLB’s supplemental educational services provisions.
- Long-time supporters of data disaggregation assert that NCLB has done nothing to improve state accountability systems.
“Hypocrisy is driven by mental processes over which we have volitional control,” said Dr. Valdesolo, a psychologist at Amherst College. “Our gut seems to be equally sensitive to our own and others’ transgressions, suggesting that we just need to find ways to better translate our moral feelings into moral actions.”
We are fortunate to have two candidates for President who, whatever their inconsistencies may be, have in the past taken positions that went against the prevailing grains of their respective political parties. And we will have new leadership next year at the two national teachers unions. The timing for a national gut check on our positions regarding education reform couldn’t be better.
There is nothing wrong with partisanship. It has its time and place. But neither party has a monopoly on truth. And when it comes to volitional control over our mental processes, can we ever get enough?
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G.O., Co-Director, Civil Rights Project
My understanding (based on the Project's report of last year and Gail Sunderman's public comments) is that the Project wants the SES program terminated, even though there are good programs funded through SES.
SES is not a voucher program. SES is merely a funding stream.
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