The National Education Policy Center (NEPC) at the University of Colorado recently conferred one of its Bunkum Awards to Minneapolis-based conservative think tank, The Center of the American Experiment. The big brains on 6th Street, kitty corner from Block E, published a study on Minnesota’s learning gap authored by former Strib columnist Katherine Kersten.
After viewing the Democratic Visions video, Dr. Susan Eaton, Research Director at the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice, Harvard Law School, sent me an email advising,
“The Bunkum Award video is pretty hilarious. And at the same time, it is also a serious problem that “junk science” like this finds its way to publication. I hope this will be spread widely through Minnesota.”
The dubious honor to the Center of the American Experiment is only one of four to be conferred for the most brazen, misleading, psuedo-scholarly studies on education to be published in 2012.
AM 950 Radio’s Nancy Nelson introduces the presentation of the award handled nicely (in a great looking, show bizzy tux) by NEPC Director Kevin Welner.
You can watch this segment and the entire half hour of Democratic Visions on your flat screen in the following places at the following time:
Minnapolis on MTN Channel 16 – Sundays at 8:30 p.m. and other times (Check MTN’s TV Guide on its website)
In Hopkins, Minnetonka, Edina, Richfield and Eden Prairie, Democratic Visions can be seen on Comcast Channel 15 on Sundays at 9 p.m. and Wednesdays at 5:30 p.m.
In Bloomington, the program is carried by Cable Channel 16 on Tuesdays at 2:00 p.m. & 10:00 p.m.; Fridays at 9:30 p.m.; Saturdays at 7:30 a.m., 2:30 p.m.
Democratic Visions is produced by volunteers through DFL Senate District 48 (Minnetonka.Eden Prairie) at the Bloomington Community Access Television studio by arrangement with the Southwest Suburban Cable Commission.
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