Friday, August 1, 2014

Two quotes

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[The businessman] is speaking a language that is familiar to him and dear to him. Its portentous nouns and verbs invest ordinary events wi...
Thursday, July 31, 2014

Common Core is for the common folk*

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If you spend much time following the education reform debate, particularly on the counter-reformation side, you soon notice that a lot of fa...

Self-defeating comment spam of the day

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This is probably not the best product to pitch if you have to rely on translation software. From the just possibly pseudonymous Lerry G Leon...
Wednesday, July 30, 2014

"Obviously, he's kept a very low profile"

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From Bill Schackner and Mary Niederberger writing for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette When Ron Tomalis stepped aside as state education secret...

Management salary apologists need to work up some new material -- college edition

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Raymond D. Cotton (a partner in the Mintz Levin law firm [who] represents higher education and other nonprofit boards of trustee and execut...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014

This is simply remarkable

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This is Joseph, the rare co-blogger.  I wanted to pass this on (h/t: Mike ).  I don't think anybody will be surprised to see this type o...

Caveats

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Brad DeLong has been on a bit of a run recently. I particularly liked this : I think that modern neoclassical economics is in fine shape...
Monday, July 28, 2014

Delving into the pros and cons of positive thinking over at You Do the Math

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I've been working on a thread (and possibly an e-book for general audiences) on George Pólya's teaching philosophy. Recently, I'...

More Michigan corruption and an LA-based observation

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As mentioned before , the Detroit Free Press recently ran an extraordinary series on on the growing number of scandals surrounding Michiga...
Friday, July 25, 2014

How does one evaluate evidence in complex circumstances

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So this is Joseph, the rarely appearing co-blogger and I wanted to comment on an evidence question. There has been a lot of discussion abo...

This not an outlier; this is a business model

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You may have this recording a customer made while trying to cancel his Comcast service. Here's a sample : Block: We’d like to disconn...
Thursday, July 24, 2014

I started to go with "arsonists decry fires, call for more kerosene" but that didn't capture the full disconnect

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Perhaps I just haven't spent enough time in the trenches, but I don't think I've ever seen a response to a corruption scandal qu...

My notes on Khan Academy's SAT prep at You Do the Math

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This is a work in progress so we should cut the Khan Academy some slack. Even with that in mind, though, I'm seriously underwhelmed  by...
Wednesday, July 23, 2014

One quote that tells you everything you need to about Florida's culture of charter school oversight

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From the Sun-Sentinel's previously mentioned profile of Steve Gallon III  [emphasis added]. The schools’ financial team began to cau...

Florida charters and the not-so-hidden costs of creative distruction

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We've been spending a lot of time on the shady characters who were uncovered by what had damned well better be an award winning serie...
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