Monday, February 14, 2011

Great moments in metawork

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As a footnote to this post , I once spent an entire meeting (at a corporation that shall remain nameless) writing a team mission statement b...

"The Economics of Blogging and The Huffington Post"

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After the election season, my regular visits to FiveThirtyEight tapered off then simply came to a stop. That might have been a mistake on m...
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Concerns with data driven reform

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Dead Dad has a post on Achieving the Dream, which is intended to improve outcomes at community colleges. Two of his commentators had reall...
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Metawork

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A business analyst I used to work with had a theory about metawork. His definition of the term was work about work. He cited HR departments ...
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Sunday, February 13, 2011

Tiger moms are nothing...

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Click for the full strip.

One more simple game for your weekend

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You have been invited to play a dice game with Pierre and Blaise. The game is played with three dice marked as follows: Dice A {2,2,4,4,9,9}...
Saturday, February 12, 2011

Weekend Gaming -- Hexagonal Chess

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I don't have any data to back this up, but I've always thought that the bulk of the benefits from learning a game -- improving probl...
Friday, February 11, 2011

"Why the Efficient Market Hypothesis (Weak Version) Says Nothing about the Ability to Identify Bubbles"

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I found this post by Peter Dorman interesting for a couple of reasons. First because it was, well, interesting -- it had something insightf...

The Good Principal Principle

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This looks promising. While it is difficult to build a model for good management, this still strikes me as a simpler problem than modelling...

At least we've gotten more efficient at some things

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From Wikipedia: I Am Number Four is a young adult science fiction novel by Pittacus Lore, the pen name of authors James Frey and Jobie ...

E-verify

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This article linked by Thoreau is pretty frightening. The main issue seems to be the combination of error rate and lack of transparency. ...

Administration

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I was reading Mark's post today on principals and I thought it was interesting to see that Dean Dad has a post from the other side of ...
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The Principal Problem

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One of the many odd things about the education reform debate is how little we hear about holding principals accountable. The subject does co...
Thursday, February 10, 2011

I originally had a mean headline but my better angels swooped in*

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Not only is Diane Ravitch a knee-jerk liberal catspaw of the unions, she's also a right wing extremist : Admittedly, I have only skimmed...

Do good teachers make difficult employees?

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A few years ago I did a stint as an instructor at a large state school teaching, among other things, business calculus. The sections for tha...