It Is Fordham’s Scholarship That’s Not So Limber

At the Tom Mooney Institute for Teacher and Union Leadership, Mark Simon delivers a devastating critique of the Fordham Foundation’s latest drive by hit on teacher union contracts, The Leadership Limbo.

According to Simon, Fordham’s Limbo:

treats a very serious subject without the serious objective scholarship that it deserves. The study begins with a faulty premise, establishes skewed criteria, and leaves us with ratings that mask a not too hidden ideological bias.

The ideological bias is an old, quite predictable one — that management should have a free hand to do as they please, and that any consideration of the interests of the workforce is necessarily harmful to the goals of the enterprise. That may be ideological red meat to Fordham’s far right funders, but it is a poor substitute for serious scholarship.

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