ceolaf.bsky.social
Educator & ed researcher. Currently focusing on how to develop better tests, for instruction and for democratic oversight of schools. http://RigorousTestDevelopment.com https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Alexander-Hoffman-12/research
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What is that in Montana distances?
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đ„ đȘ
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He and they want him to be a very big fish, regardless of what they do to the pond?
Make the pond smaller? Less life-supporting? Uglier? Whatever.
Just to long as he is the biggest fish possible.
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Thatâs some dumb shit.
Important to be peaceful, loud and patriotic. Important not to interfere.
But fucking protest.
Just remember the power of non-violence.
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Whose take is that?
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I hate 6-4, 6-4, 7-6.
This is so much better.
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Dude.
This is better.
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Oh, at this level fitness is a given, right?
For 40 years, this is what has impressed me so about top tennis players. They can play for so many more minutes and hours than other major sportsâ athletes. On top of everything else, they play every point for hours.
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The ability to maintain focus and withstand minor comebacks/setbacks is an important part of menâs grand slam tennisâespecially when the best play the best.
It goes beyond physical gifts and practiced technical skills.
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So, youâre saying it *IS* RICO?
ââCause I was gonna ask.
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đȘđ„
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Maybe
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This is a real challenge. If you bring in the same people into a new formal organization, theyâre gonna bring the old culture with them. It resides within the people and between them, not simply in the old formal structures.
We must affirmatively address culture, not just organizational structure.
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"âBetterâ never means better for everyone, he says. It always means worse, for some."
Selective enforcement of laws is never to the advantage of the poor or disfavored. Thatâs a less promising strategy the equal enforcement of democratically established laws.
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I would aim to improve our democracy, rather than abandon the very idea of enforcing our laws.
It seems that we disagree on that.
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6) You are not arguing about the manner of enforcement. You are saying that we should blow off the law.
If you canât get on board with enforcing democratically made decisions that comply with the constitution and other laws, thereâs nothing for us to discuss.
/fin
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5) I support democracy, even when it yields results that I do not like. I continue to press my views in an effort to prevail democratically.
Itâs the worst system for making policy and value decisions, except for all the others that have been tried in the history of mankind.
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4) if you merely do not support the enforcement of democraticly enacted laws that you personally disagree with, then you take a very Trumpian view of democracy, the constitution, and law.
Then you do not actually support democracy .
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3) if you do not believe in democracy or the enforcement of democratically enacted laws, we have a very, very deep disagreement that go beyond the topic of immigration or ICE.
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2) I believe the democratically enacted laws should be enforced. I believe that those laws and and that was enforcement mechanisms should be subject to constitutional review. And obviously, the enforcement mechanisms should be in compliance with the whole range of laws.
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1) @normative.bsky.social, to whom I was replying, does acknowledge that. So thatâs the point I was speaking to him.
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Abolish ICE? I donât see how that accomplishes anything. We can rename as part of a cultural-shift effort. But we need to instead think hard about and invest it what it it takes to shift organizational culture.
Thatâs the only path available to us.
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So, as is so often the case, itâs requires shifting behavior of a work force (which hopefully leads to shifting values, as Alan Bursen preached) while also growing a new generation of employees who are shown the way we approve of from the beginning.
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That is, the kinds of people who want to do this work so often already want to do it in a wayâor in the furtherance of valuesâthat I think we agree are bad.
And the kinds of people whose vision of this work we might agree with do not want to do this kind of work.
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Surely, yes, new senior leadership and removal of the worst apples. No doubt. That is necessary either way.
But I donât think we can find suitable replacements for the entire ICE workforce.
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Thereâs simply no sidestepping addressing culture head-on, unless we believe that we can find an almost entirely new set of senior leaders, mid-level leaders **AND** even lower managementâin addition to replacing most of the front line work force.
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But titularly wiping out ICE for a new organization while preserving most the personnel in similar positions doesnât address the culture problem. They will bring the culture with them, along their relationships and norm.
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Organizational culture is incredibly important, and generally one of the greats strengths of highly effective organizations. Cultural and human capital (i.e., highly capable personnel) are harder to build than it is buy a building, find a new supplier or write a policy.
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If we acknowledge that there is a real need to fulfill so many functions under ICEâs purview, itâs a question of whether it is harder:
A) to stand up an new organization or
B) to change the culture of the existing organization.
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Are you even going to acknowledge that I sent your requested citation? Or was all that just a drive-by for you?
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New white paper finalized.
Which meant:
* New page on web site
* ResearchGate upload
* blog post
* LinkedIn post
Iâm didnât get to academia.edu. Iâm behind there.
How many ways can I introduce the same damn thing? Will I ever be able to get up and make dinner?
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You have an above average sense of humor.
I do not
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Again, motivated reasoning.
What is your evidence that they just donât want to do that, as opposed external barrier that they sometimes cite?
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We have huge problems with development in many parts of the country. Many many very smart and motivated people have been unable to get through those veto points, not just university leaders.
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I agree with this. But not everyone does.
You also need to grapple Berkeley, UVa and UM, which are not private. (Among others)
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How are you distinguishing them?
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5) You are engaged in motivated reasoning to ignore the actual dynamics at play: because of scarcity benefits them, they must be intentionally engineering it.
But youâve not explained why being 20% larger wouldnât benefit them. Still scarce, just not as scarce.
/fin
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4) It is simply a fact that UC Berkley is very challenged to grow its physical facilities, as is Harvard, Yale, etc..
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3) You are right, Pappy CAN increase availability (particularly because, I think, they do not actually distill or age themselves) tand elects not to.
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2) Scarcity drives price, but thatâs not what we are talking about. Thatâs a different issues. This is about RELATIVE standing. Price *can* signal quality, often in a sort of backwards way. But itâs reputational value, which is driven by a different dynamic.
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on scarcity:
1) So now you admit that there IS scarcity? I thought you started by saying otherwise?
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On legacy admissions:
1) Legacy admissions is certainly a problem, but itâs not like none of them would get in without such a preference.
2) More productive than what?
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4) The full freight payment by foreign students is about i) undergraduates and ii) federal financial aid.
Grad school funding can work so differently (i.e., more like a job than like tuition) that that doesnât apple. And, then thereâs non-federal support.
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(In other industries, when market leaders cannot meet demand, new firms come online. But here, itâs that elite reputation that attracts so much interest.)
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3) So, even with full tuition undergrads, many elite schools cannot offer additional supply to meet the demand. Itâs not a cost issues, as money is not the obstacle.
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2) In this industry, expansion requires additional facilities *on* *site*. That means offices, classrooms and dorms. But that runs in to larger real-estate and development obstacles.
Thatâs not just land shortages, but also anti-development regulations that prevent building.