Tuesday, August 6, 2013

At this point, seeing even inaccurate coverage of OTA television seems like a triumph

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This Marketplace story  does leave a bit to be desired in terms of accuracy and completeness. In the audio version, the reporter, Sally Hers...

Metablogging -- stag hunts, misalignment, principal agents and all that jazz

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Shortly after Josh Marshall posted this analysis of recent events in the GOP, Joseph called me up to compare reactions. We've been havi...

The real challenge of Libertarian populism

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According to Wikipedia, the night-watchman state (a foundation of Libertarianism) is defined as: A night-watchman state, or a minimal st...
Monday, August 5, 2013

Price discrimination at Ralph's

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This is a new one on me. I was in the grocery store last night when the thought hit me that I hadn't had a root beer float in a long t...
Sunday, August 4, 2013

Worst Statistic of the Day

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Via Lawyers, Guns, and Money comes the piece most detached from reality I've seen this year : When Josh McFarland graduated from Stan...
Saturday, August 3, 2013

Weekend blogging -- Patents and product testing

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Of course, these days I'm sure someone has patented the general idea of making a death ray. Perhaps that's an upside of having ...
Friday, August 2, 2013

"An astonishing act of statistical chutzpah" -- details on the Tony Bennett scandal

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Jordan Ellenberg at Slate and  Anne Hyslop at the New America Foundation have posts up explaining exactly how the Indiana Department of Ed...

The Op-ed no one wanted to print

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When it comes to the education beat, this guy has one hell of a resume . John Merrow began his career as an education reporter with Natio...
Thursday, August 1, 2013

A final (?) news wrap-up on the Bennett story

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As previously mentioned : INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Former Indiana and current Florida schools chief Tony Bennett built his national star by pro...

Value added testing without a gold standard outcome

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From a Megan Pledger comment on StatChat comes this paper ( pdf ) on value added testing models for evaluating teachers.  The following conc...
Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Stories I should probably be writing about

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Thoreau has a glowing review of this book on pedagogical fads. It looks interesting though given the cost and the quantity I assume they a...

General versus particular cases

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Andrew Gelman did a very interesting article in Slate on how being overly reliant on statistical significance can lead to spurious findings...
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The other side of the ethical failures of the education reform movement

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There's an old denominational joke that ends with the punchline "Just don't let them see you. They think they're the only o...
Tuesday, July 30, 2013

The looting phase of education reform and the other Tony Bennett

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[In response to Joseph's prod ] I realize regular readers must be getting tired of these stories (new readers can see why by search...
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Monday, July 29, 2013

Paging Mark P

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Mark Thoma posted this today . I think the whole idea of charter schools has some merit as a means of educational experimentation.  But if...