Thursday, December 5, 2013

"A grain of discovery"

›
[Dictated into a smart phone. I tried to catch all of the homonyms, but, hell, it's late and I'm fading.] Having opened up what wi...
Wednesday, December 4, 2013

Diane Ravitch provides some historical perspective on international math rankings

›
A perverse problem with education reform is that, on a high enough level, almost everyone agrees it's a good thing. Unfortunately, it i...
1 comment:
Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Fairness and regulation

›
Dean Baker has some good points : For the last three decades the government has pursued a wide range of policies that have had the effect...

Happy PISA Day, everybody!

›
Richard Rothstein and Martin Carnoy of the Economic Policy Institute have some strong words about how PISA data is released. It is usual...
Monday, December 2, 2013

"Up until about a month ago, we all knew what merit pay meant."

›
Dana Goldstein has a good write-up on a recent education study: In 10 cities, including Los Angeles, Miami, and Houston, researchers at M...
Saturday, November 30, 2013

Weekend blogging -- save this one for late in the day

›
As a former creative writing major, I probably shouldn't admit this but I wasn't really familiar with Paul Verlaine and I had no ide...
Friday, November 29, 2013

Putting Arne Duncan's remarks in context

›
“It’s fascinating to me that some of the pushback is coming from, sort of, white suburban moms who — all of a sudden — their child isn’t as ...
Thursday, November 28, 2013

So what am I missing?

›
This conclusion of a piece by Megan McArdle was confusing : Those victims should not be abandoned -- no American should be allowed to star...
Wednesday, November 27, 2013

"As God as my witness..." is my second favorite Thanksgiving episode line

›
If you watch this and you could swear you remember Johnny and Mr. Carlson discussing Pink Floyd, you're not imagining things. Hulu u...

Equality and Adam Smith

›
Bill Gardner from the Incidental Economist  (in comments): As you know, Adam Smith was a moral philosopher. You might want to ponder this...

Teacher incentives

›
Dana Goldstein writes about a program that gives a $20,000 bonus to teachers who transfer to "high poverty, low test score" school...
2 comments:

You will never guess who I'm quoting...

›
And, God help me, she pretty much nails it : There’s much more to the fight than simple left-right divisions. The Common Core peddlers inc...
Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Education blogging -- Common Core, accountability and the cost of deadwood

›
I've started digging into the Common Core standards and one of the things that hit me was the large amount of what I would consider dea...
Monday, November 25, 2013

Antibiotics: an ever evolving story

›
I really think that the issue of antibiotic resistance gets too little play, so I am happy to see it discussed -- even if the discussion er...
3 comments:

Ed reform background reading -- three from Wikipedia

›
I know this is rich coming from a blogger but too many people are joining in on the ed reform debate without having taken the time to learn ...