Sunday, July 20, 2014

Two Michigan stories

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Perhaps there's a connection somewhere. First there's this previously mentioned story from the Detroit Free Press : A yearlon...
Saturday, July 19, 2014

Rural hospitals

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“You can't let rural hospitals close across the country. People die,” Adam O'Neal , mayor of Belhaven, N.C You may have heard abo...
Friday, July 18, 2014

Thinking about incentives at You Do the Math

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Over at my teaching blog, You Do the Math , I'm in the middle of a thread on motivating students. Most of it is focused on education, b...

More on the Jack Kirby copyright case

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From DEADLINE [Emphasis added]: EXCLUSIVE: No big surprise that today Marvel and Disney asked the Supreme Court to deny a petition from...

Vergara transcripts

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I probably won't be getting back to to the Vergara Case for a while -- I pretty much had my say in this Monkey Cage piece  -- but I just...
Thursday, July 17, 2014

Sometimes when you blow a something up, you just get rubble...

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I know we've been over this before, but most of the fundamental ideas in the education reform movement (the magic of the markets, scient...
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Wednesday, July 16, 2014

Ray Fisman on Swedish school vouchers

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Ray Fisman reports on the Swedish experience with vouchers and how it hasn't quire worked out as well as one might hope .  Ray Fisman is...

Formalizing Next-Big-Thingism

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Various time in various posts, I've complained about Next-Big-Thingism, often in conjunction with ddulites and the growth fetish , but ...
Tuesday, July 15, 2014

A lesson about Twitter, TV cameras and life in the public eye

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I heard this on TPM , but surprisingly Josh Marshall left out the context and that context adds greatly to the story. At least based on hi...

Helsinki's 'mobility on demand' system and the travel-time landscape

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I've got a lot on my plate so I'm just going to take a very quick pass at this. I may try to get back to it later. There are a lot...
Monday, July 14, 2014

Unions

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From an econoblog : You might wonder how the cross-country evidence shows a positive correlation whereas the cross-workplace evidence gene...

I know there's a verb there somewhere

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Or maybe a preposition. I'm working on a couple of ed reform pieces, one on the recent charter school scandals and another going still...
Friday, July 11, 2014

Sometimes it really is just because "that's where they keep the money"

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Joseph and I have been having a long running debate about the emphasis of many of my education posts. I tend to spend quite a bit of time di...
Thursday, July 10, 2014

A new post up at You Do the Math pits George Pólya against the education reform movement

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Or at least it presents the opening salvos. Pólya was a humanist. That puts him at odds with the education reform movement. I'm a bi...
Wednesday, July 9, 2014

Watching a Variety editor pull back from the obvious on Netflix.

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Over at Variety, Andrew Wallenstein has a smart analysis of Netflix’s hiring of Chelsea Handler. Unfortunately he can't quite bring hi...