Tonight, ABC’s 20/20 devotes a full hour to SuperFreakonomics. The show’s five segments can be previewed online: handwashing in hospitals, the effectiveness of car seats, how practice trumps talent, the dirty truth about altruism, and last, but very much not least, the problems with global warming. [%comments]
Tonight, 20/20 Gets SuperFreaky
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The narrator of tonight’s 20/20 episode about SuperFreakonomics stated that “public schools have been horribly broken since the 1970′s”. I’m wondering about the person who wrote those words in tonight’s script. Does this person call him or herself a reporter? Where did that interesting “fact” come from?
There is a National Test (NAEP) that refutes that statement in every way. Actually, based on the fact that we are dealing with an increasingly diverse population, our public schools have been steadily improving instruction in order to meet the needs of all our students, instead of just the chosen few.
Most people in our country have students in public schools, and I would prefer to support and believe in all of the individuals who make up our education system. I am a teacher in an amazing public school where people work hard every day, always focused on student learning and student needs.
The callous comment I heard on 20/20 just made me feel so sad. It implied an indifference, or maybe even a desire to see public schools fail. Why?
You guys did a fine job- though they really made you come off as misogynistic in the first few segments . How soon we forget how MANY sacred cows graze in the fields of political correctness.
I’d be shocked if book sales did not spike after last night’s broadcast. Congrats.
Ok, so I haven’t read the book.
But mr. anonymous above just told me that geoengineering is an extreme centralized solution compared with taxing. I mean, if I were to compare apples with apples, I could come up with that conclusion as well.
But unfortunately, I have no idea what he/she means with this statement. If we were to rely on our innate creativity I feel like we would come up with something such as geoengineering, which from the limited reading that I’ve had (this blog/google research) is cost effective and quite possibly highly effective.
So I ask, if not geoengineering, then what?
Looking forward to reading the book. Regarding the theory that feminism helped to drive “wages” up for prostitutes…
Did you consider the impact of AIDS? Surely this had to reduce the supply of new recruits to the field.
The show was great, I’m sure the book is even better.