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Dishonest Characteristics
of the Director of Character Education In Arkansas
Letter to Editor::
I was shocked to learn that Willard Daggett from New York, who has a reputation for dishonesty, is heading up Governor Huckabee's Character Education program. According to a 1999 article by Tyce Palmaffy, Daggett claimed in speeches to be a university president but later confessed he had been a professor, not a president.
Palmaffy also reports that several education scholars say Daggett prescribes reforms based on shaky research. Gerald Bracey, a psychologist who specializes in education statistics, took Daggett to task in a 1995 Phi Delta Kappan article for talking at length about a study that Bracy and other top scholars couldn't find. Daggett refused to produce the study in question.
In another instance, Daggett said California has 21% of its kids in charter schools when the actual statistic is 1%. However, Daggett still holds conferences across the US and gets big bucks for his time. Grossse Point, Michigan School District paid him $10,000 for a day-long series of talks. For many other Daggett misrepresentations and fabrications, see the newsletter on website www.afaar.org and/or the above article, "Are School Consultants Worth It?", Investors Busienss Daily, Inc.,Oct. 22, 1999.
Daggett is also self described in Fliers as an "Eminent Outcome-Based Reformer & Implementer". . . Shaping America's Future Through Outcome-Based Education" and has been a co-trainer around the nation for OBE with William (Bill) Spady, the Father of OBE. OBE is the failed educational reforms that Huckabee supposedly opposes.
Do the readers think we need this kind of man heading up character education in Arkansas? If not, please contact the Governor and tell him so or clip this letter and mail it to him.
Vickie Harrison
Jonesboro, Arkansas 72404
(Published May, 2000)
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