Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Free Markets and Efficiency

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There has been a lot of talk about how efficient private markets are.  So, when UPS and Target had pretty major problems, it become somethin...
Monday, December 30, 2013

“Because she wanted to.”

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Over at Valerie Strauss's essential Washington Post column, principal Carol Burris of South Side High School in New York has a must read...
Saturday, December 28, 2013

Weekend blogging -- In Memoriam

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Peter O'Toole Michael Ansara Ray Harryhausen Richard Matheson Jean Stapleton Jonathan Winters (Ansara wa...
Friday, December 27, 2013

A holiday message from the creative class to Richard Florida -- screw you

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Last Saturday was the big party of the year for the LA hot jazz/country blues scene. Droves of musicians, actors, writers and directors conv...
Thursday, December 26, 2013

MOOCs and analogies

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Matt Yglesias has a very nice post pointing out the issues of over-hyping MOOCs as a way to transform education.  He points out that TV watc...

More on the complicated politics (racial and otherwise) of the education reform movement

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Like NYC, Chicago has been in the forefront of the reform movement, particularly when it comes to replacing traditional schools with charte...
Tuesday, December 24, 2013

Happy Holidays from XKCD

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Monday, December 23, 2013

Christmas from the Archive

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The Internet Archive to be specific. Lots of fascinating stuff here. A music historian I know has an ongoing project digging through the rad...
Saturday, December 21, 2013

More evidence that the NYT feels strongly enough about education to take a stand, not strongly enough to follow the debate

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As previously mentioned , this NYT editorial managed to get the Shanghai PISA story so wrong that they praised China for following pretty m...
Friday, December 20, 2013

401(k) plans: a never-ending story

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I have worried about this issue before, but it is never bad to keep up with the reminders :  If you have a 401(k) plan through your employ...
Thursday, December 19, 2013

The Shanghai Surprise -- something that people who followed the PISA story closely were already talking about

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In the wake of the release of the PISA scores, one of the big topics was Tom Loveless's Brookings research which seemed to show that no...
Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Our annual Toys-for-Tots post

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[update: A reluctant plug for Toys 'R Us. They still carry metal Tonkas and at least here in LA they're having a sale on musical ins...

Divergent and convergent educational outcomes -- the sour grapes effect

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This is another topic that we've kicked around for a while that's recently become more relevant (from a previous post ): As much a...
Tuesday, December 17, 2013

Paradigm shift on trade and inequality

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Life has been busy so posting is light. But this point by Matt Yglesias cannot be missed: But of course this isn't something that just...

Treatments and payback curves

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[Epidemiology examples used by marketing statistician -- proceed with caution.] In one sense, education research is like much of the resea...
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