Showing posts with label The New Republic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The New Republic. Show all posts
Thursday, August 25, 2011

From the New Republic. Seriously.

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Here's the actual, honest-to-God headline: Rick Perry Is a Higher-Education Visionary. Seriously. I'm way too busy to give th...
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Thursday, August 18, 2011

An interesting observation about the electoral math of Texas

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And kudos to the New Republic for giving its interns a chance to do good, high-profile work. From Gabriel Debenedetti: And Texas, Tucker n...
Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Something else that shouldn't surprise people but probably will

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I suspect Seyward Darby spoke for a lot of people on the left when she admitted growing disenchanted with Michelle Rhee (despite Rhee's...
Thursday, February 17, 2011

Having made fun of Paul Krugman's puns, there's no way I can use the title "Darby's Rhee Lapse"

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From the New Republic's Seyward Darby : The mantra goes, “You either love or hate Michelle Rhee.” In the education world, there is no fi...
Friday, December 24, 2010

And bonus stat-nerd points for the title

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This New Republic article by Ed Kilgore is a good (if troubling) read and it's an excellent complement to Joseph's earlier post on...
Tuesday, October 5, 2010

An experiment in blogging -- the conclusion

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When assessing a statement, sometimes it's useful to rephrase it in a more general way and see how well it holds up. I tried that with a...
Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Was I too tough on Seyward Darby?

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We've recently had a huge uptick in viewers. This is great (and I'm tremendously appreciative), but I do have to remind myself most ...
Monday, September 27, 2010

Does Seyward Darby think Seyward Darby should be fired?

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I don't. I have always believed that firing is a last resort, but Darby has certainly gone on the record as being for firing incompetent...
Thursday, September 16, 2010

"We've made huge advances in what they're called" -- New Republic edition

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This post by Joseph got me thinking. Charter schools are private contractors providing services that were previously provided by the govern...
Friday, April 9, 2010

Chait on careers in journalism

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I had some posts up earlier (see here and here ) on how economic changes had affected the career options for writers of fiction. Over at Th...
Wednesday, March 17, 2010

"We could call them 'universities'"

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This bit from the from Kevin Carey's entry into the New Republic Debate caught my eye: In the end, [Diane Ravitch's] Death and Lif...
Monday, March 15, 2010

TNR on the education debate

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The New Republic is starting a series on education reform. Given the extraordinary quality of commentary we've been seeing from TNR, th...