Showing posts with label Ray Fisman. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ray Fisman. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 16, 2014

Ray Fisman on Swedish school vouchers

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Ray Fisman reports on the Swedish experience with vouchers and how it hasn't quire worked out as well as one might hope .  Ray Fisman is...
Saturday, May 28, 2011

Consistency

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I was looking at Andrew Gelman's blog and saw his discussion of Ray Fisman's piece on compensation . I was especially struck by th...
Thursday, September 2, 2010

Oh, Canada -- another interesting omission in "Clean Out Your Desk"

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We're back with our ongoing coverage of Ray Fisman's recent article in Slate which ran with the provocative tagline "Is firing...
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Monday, August 30, 2010

Is Ray Fisman one of the best and the brightest?

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Based on some of the feedback to my past few posts on Ray Fisman's recent Slate article , there's a point I should probably make exp...
Wednesday, August 25, 2010

The Old Shell Game -- Why you have to keep your eye on Ray Fisman (and no, we're not quite through with the second paragraph)

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Ray Fisman's Slate article " Clean Out Your Desk " is something of a greatest hits of the education reform movement, covering...
Monday, August 23, 2010

Starting from the beginning -- Ray Fisman's sins of omission

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The centerpiece of Fisman's recent Slate article, " Clean Out Your Desk ," is a deeply flawed analysis proposing that four out...
Thursday, August 19, 2010

Ray Fisman and the Tierney Ratio

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The Tierney Ratio (sometimes called the Tierney Test because people love alliteration) is a measure of journalistic mediocrity named for its...
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Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Desperately Seeking Suzanne (Null)

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In Life in Hell , Matt Groening once asked if there was anything scarier than an open-mic poetry night. As a general rule, I have the same r...
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Tuesday, August 17, 2010

A Partial N-space of Eduction Reform -- another preblogged footnote

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If we are going to have an intelligent conversation about education (which at this point would be a refreshing change of pace), we have to s...
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