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College of William and Mary
They are the perennial cocktail party questions: Are your children getting a good education? Are the schools in your town good ones? Are your children’s teachers competent.
If people you know say theyhave the answers to those questions, don’t be too sure, according to a professor in the School of Education at the College of William and Mary.
Robert J. Hanny, a faculty member who specializes in curriculum development, instruction and standardized testing, says that many people form ideas about what’s happening in local education based on partial information and the prevailing public relations image, not on scientific fact.
“We tend to be easily influenced in our attitude of what’s going on in education by the media, not necessarily newspapers or television, but prominent people who write and speak about education in general,” said Hanny. Often, politicians who decide :hey want to make their mark in education merely succeed in
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