Thursday, June 5, 2014

"[N]o revenue, no patents, no trademarks, no manufacturing facilities, and no experience"

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Most of the coverage of this story has been focused, understandably, on the political side, but part I find much more interesting is the r...
Wednesday, June 4, 2014

Flawed analogy watch -- Comcast edition

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As if there weren't enough to dislike about this deal, we now have the CEO talking to us like we're morons. Faced with difficult ...
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Tuesday, June 3, 2014

The sad part is this doesn't significantly lower my opinion of Matt Miller

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Joseph and I try to avoid the overtly partisan at this blog. We frequently endorse Democratic positions but that has a lot to do with the cu...
Monday, June 2, 2014

When it comes to technology journalism, reports of progress don't have to be directionally accurate

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First the disclaimer: I have a number of friends and relatives who, for reasons of age or vision, do not or cannot drive. For these people, ...
Saturday, May 31, 2014

Weekend blogging: before the man with no name, there was...

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My first thought on first seeing Yojimbo  years ago was that Kurosawa had been watching a lot of spaghetti westerns. Then I remember which c...
Friday, May 30, 2014

This time it's different

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Adriene Hill had a strangely schizophrenic story yesterday (CLASSROOM TECH: A HISTORY OF HYPE AND DISAPPOINTMENT). It came with the ominous...
Thursday, May 29, 2014

Bookable, readily bookable, semi-bookable, ebookable

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While we're on the subject , Jeremy Kilpatrick of the University of Georgia has an interesting eye-witness take on the math reforms o...
Wednesday, May 28, 2014

What exactly are the stakes?

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I want to be careful how I frame this, partly because it's a big, complicated question and partly because it would be easy to imply an ...
Tuesday, May 27, 2014

Adding in base 8, counting by ten, and other reform fixations

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With all of the usual caveats about small samples, I've been reading up on education reform movements past and present recently and I...
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Monday, May 26, 2014

A good day for a recommendation

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There is, of course, no such thing as the military perspective -- no single person can speak for all the men and women who have served in t...
Saturday, May 24, 2014

Here's one for the Unqualified Offerings crowd...

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I'm taking this with a small grain of salt (there are a couple of things in the Georgetown report that concern me a bit), but with thos...
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Weekend blogging -- Memorial Day Roger Corman Marathon

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I was having a cup of coffee and a cookie this evening at a place on Beverly I frequent a lot. The bakery's first rate, the coffee's...
Friday, May 23, 2014

Can nobody work out the incentives?

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I hate to do the both sides are out to lunch meme, but this response to the Levitt/Dubner/Noah Smith health care plan missed the main point...

A pretty good one-page intro to New Math

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Not what you'd call 'in  depth,' of course, but this primer by Calley Connelly of MSU Bozeman does a pretty good job hitting th...

Good grief! -- Sally Brown on New Math [Updated]

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I have been working on a long piece on the parallels between the New Math of the Sixties and the Common Core math of today. As part of my re...
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