Wednesday, February 27, 2013

More on Yahoo! and flex time

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A lot of the framing of the Yahoo! decision to ban work at home has been painting it as anti-family or anti-feminism.  Dana Goldstein has a ...
Monday, February 25, 2013

Yahoo! is getting bad press

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But maybe it shouldn't be.  There has been a lot of discussion about the end of the work from home program at Yahoo! but I was pretty co...

Health care costs: a never-ending saga

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There is a fascinating piece on health care costs in America that has been getting a lot of attention. There have been a lot of responses ...
Sunday, February 24, 2013

Value added testing

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This article is worth reading throughout .  However, the most relevant passage is: Because student performance on the state ELA and math ...

They're just not paying Gelman's preferred currency -- the odd economics of access

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This post from Andrew Gelman on a truly bad graph and this story from NPR had a common element that caught my eye, partly because I've...
Friday, February 22, 2013

Education Research

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A strong opinion: I don’t have an informed opinion on the standard of observational research in education, but if the standard is high,...
Thursday, February 21, 2013

"More colleges stop giving credit for AP exams"

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I have to admit mixed feelings about this  (from Marketplace): Yet despite all the hard work, students like Brown may not be able to place...
Wednesday, February 20, 2013

"Cosma Shalizi - Why Economics Needs Data Mining"

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As part of a comment thread to this post on big data , Mark Thoma sends us here: UPDATE: I should have mentioned this before, but, w...
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Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Interesting stats blog

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From New Zealand.  

Education blogging of note

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David Warsh has posted another entry in a thoughtful series about early childhood development. He also includes useful links including one ...
Monday, February 18, 2013

Yeah, I'm getting tired of these too

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Once again I made the mistake of listening to On the Media. It started out reasonably benign with a standard but harmless piece on cyber-se...
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Sunday, February 17, 2013

When does original programming make business sense? part 1 -- cable

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The big PR push (and credulous coverage) of Netflix's House of Cards has got me thinking about the necessary conditions for successfully...
Saturday, February 16, 2013

Weekend cinema buff alert

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Hulu has temporarily lifted the paywall around the Criterion Collection . If you're a movie lover, you should definitely drop by. p.s....

The best tech writing you'll read this week just might be an article about wheelbarrows

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I may may not always show it but I'm a great fan of technology (it's tough love, but love nonetheless). What I am not a fan of i...
Wednesday, February 13, 2013

More fun with charts

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Daniel Kuehn and Joseph previously discussed this post by Megan McArdle entitled "Department of Awful Statistics: Income Inequality ...
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