Friday, October 10, 2014

Checking in with Cracked.com -- the website that's better than it has an right to be

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Even more than Mental Floss , Cracked.com has taken the worst genre in journalism (the unfortunately named listicle) and made it something ...
Thursday, October 9, 2014

Step-back SAT/GRE problems -- trying something new at "You Do the Math"

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I've been thinking about the problem of adapting lessons for different media in general and for video in particular. There is a popular ...

The New York Times' regularly scheduled sackcloth and ashes show

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From Talking Points Memo : When New York Times columnist David Brooks revealed last month that his son is serving in the Israeli military,...
Wednesday, October 8, 2014

XKCD Marriage

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Lots of interesting implications here, but they'll have to wait till later.
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“I can no longer accept cash in bags in a Pizza Hut parking lot” -- time to add Pennsylvania to the list

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In an article entitled READING, WRITING, RANSACKING , Charles P. Pierce makes me think that I haven't been spending nearly enough time l...
Tuesday, October 7, 2014

Now they've got me defending the efficient market theorem...

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I know it's trivial, but this one has always annoyed me. There are cases where the conventional wisdom is so screwed up that the ma...
Monday, October 6, 2014

I'm going to let someone else bitch about the New York Times for a while

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Besides, when itt comes to take-downs of bad financial journalism, there's no one sharper than Felix Salmon. In " Annals of NYT i...
Friday, October 3, 2014

Examining the rope – – Rotten Tomatoes edition

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[You can find the origin of the metaphor here ] Our last Rotten Tomatoes post may have come out a little harsher than I intended. I proba...
Thursday, October 2, 2014

Understanding Common Core-aligned math homework

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I volunteer a couple of times a week with a group that does after school tutoring for urban students in LA. My role is "math floater.&q...
Wednesday, October 1, 2014

Two ways of looking at the achievement gap and how the reform debate often misses them both

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The following came out of a phone conversation I had this weekend with Joseph. I'll need to get back to this later but for now here'...

Limits of Market Forces: a never-ending saga

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This is a post by Joseph. I was reading this article and was struck by this passage: Poole lamented in his blueprint that the country ...

The Thirty Million Words Initiative

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This is interesting [if you get a chance, listen to the audio at the link] “By the end of the age of three, children who are born into p...
Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Why a predictably breakable rope is better than an unbreakable rope

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Short answer: there is no such thing as an unbreakable rope. There's an old story about an isolated monastery located high on the sid...
Monday, September 29, 2014

The great buried lede of the Common Core debate

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Lee Fang has another solid piece of investigative journalism at the Nation . It covers a lot of important ground (I'd recommend reading...
Sunday, September 28, 2014

"Marvel, Jack Kirby Heirs Settle Dispute Over Superhero Rights"

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From Variety “Marvel and the family of Jack Kirby have amicably resolved their legal disputes, and are looking forward to advancing their ...