Thursday, September 16, 2010

Implications of the DC primary on education

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Mark and I have been talking a lot about education. Today Seyward Darby has an article on the implications of Michelle Rhee leaving. What...
Wednesday, September 15, 2010

More on the SRI KIPP report

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This is a fairly small case of researchers being (deliberately?) obtuse, but it's representative enough to merit a brief post. First loo...

Calling Yves Smith

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(Via Andrew Gelman ) John Sides has good take-down of Steven Hayward's odd screed for the American Enterprise Institute's house jo...
Tuesday, September 14, 2010

This is so funny it made me cry

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From Dr. Girlfriend . Is this not every bio-statistician’s worst nightmare?
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They just don't care

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I am sure that most people in the news media watch every episode of the Daily Show and the Colbert Report . Then they get up the next mornin...

So which one is it?

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DeanDad brings this point up in a post today. It's not related to the main point of the post but it is certainly worth noting: Hell, w...
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Monday, September 13, 2010

The appeal of bad ideas -- why do rational executives keep trying ideas that never work?

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A while back my friend Brian (of Ultrasonic Remote ) and I found ourselves on the subject of TV remakes, shows that kept the title and gene...

(Acknowledging) Failure Is Not an Option

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Here at OE, we have been spending a lot of time discussing the horrible student attrition rates in Bay area KIPP schools, but when I first c...

Substituting metrics for judgement

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This episode of This American Life concludes with a fascinating account of the manipulation of crime statistics. Drop by, take a listen, g...
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If reformers are looking for an indictment of our educational system...

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I'd like to put some finer shadings on Joseph's recent post . I think I speak for most former and current teachers when I say that m...
Sunday, September 12, 2010

Cost of Education

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I was speaking with Mark about this post and an interesting point came up. Teachers already have long and structured hours (pre and post cl...
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Reflections on the KIPP posts

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I want to explicitly emphasize this point in Mark's last post : One is the eighty/twenty rule. Some students take more time than others ...

Make that most children left behind

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In an email, Joseph accused me of burying the lede when I discussed KIPP charter schools in an earlier post. The paragraph in question was t...

The 'I' stands for 'Ironic'

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Check out bullet two. (From the KIPP website ) At KIPP schools: Parents are encouraged to be involved and to contribute; Teachers have the f...
Saturday, September 11, 2010

Rationality

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From Econned page 148: Greenspan was hardly alone in his dogmatic belief in the wisdom of leaving “free markets” to their own devices . . ....