Thursday, January 30, 2014

Principles?

›
Matt Yglesias has a great reframing of a key political issue in modern America.  Zachery Goldfarb pointed out : As they cast about for id...
Monday, January 27, 2014

DON'T SEND FLOWERS -- NOT DEAD YET

›
Apologies for the silence. I've got a big project wrapping up while, based on the word from Seattle (via a bad cell connection), Joseph ...
Wednesday, January 22, 2014

33 freaking degrees

›
[As you might guess, I wrote this post this summer and never got around to posting it.] Today while driving from my home in North Hollywoo...
Monday, January 20, 2014

Are we becoming more tolerant of nepotism (and other perks of privilege)?

›
The New Republic has a very good profile by Julia Iofee of  Michael Needham of the Heritage Foundation. The whole thing is worth reading, ...
Friday, January 17, 2014

Second order effects

›
There has been a lot of discussion about inequality lately , some of which could use some careful thinking about distributions and effect or...
Wednesday, January 15, 2014

The often dubious "not" in not-for-profit

›
I previously suggested that the education reform movement was unusually vulnerable to conflicts of interest. This would be an example : T...
Tuesday, January 14, 2014

An optimistic take on Netflix

›
Megan McArdle : That’s both good and bad for Netflix. On the one hand, all those warehouses are expensive to maintain and staff, compared ...
Monday, January 13, 2014

A slightly creepy letter from the CEO of Exxon Mobil

›
The education reform movement and Common Core in particular have never had a lack of corporate friends for a variety of reasons, but even in...
Saturday, January 11, 2014

A belated fact check of an old Felix Salmon Netflix post

›
In the course of researching an upcoming post replying to this piece by Felix Salmon on Netflix, I followed this link to an earlier post a...
Friday, January 10, 2014

Felix Salmon hits a home run

›
Thomas Lumley directs his readers to this piece by Felix Salmon .  I think he (Thomas) stops his quote a paragraph early: After disruptio...
3 comments:

A challenge for the math historians in the audience

›
I came across this while working on a Pólya project. The following is a standard collection of word problems but the first five share a not...
Wednesday, January 8, 2014

The great pedagogical end run

›
For at least the past thirty years, the education reform movement has been a strange alliance of advocates for very different agendas coming...
Tuesday, January 7, 2014

Catching up on the education beat

›
More Duncan charm , reported here by WP's Valerie Strauss U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan and at least one other Education Depa...
Monday, January 6, 2014

The strange bedfellows of the education reform movement

›
Mercedes Schneider has a post that beautifully illustrates some of the complexities and contradictions of the reform movement using the exa...
Saturday, January 4, 2014

Weekend blogging -- Starring the writer...

›
Except for someone like Keaton or Chaplin (who else could they cast?), I've always found the notion of actor/director rather odd. It see...