Thursday, September 4, 2014

I know I pick on Netflix a lot

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But the coverage of the company keeps providing such good examples of the way flacks and hacks force real stories into standard narratives. ...
Wednesday, September 3, 2014

Job security

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Mark posted about a piece by Barry Ritholtz that had some smart things to say about market timing.  However, I think I want to quibble wit...
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The essential distinction between charter schools and charter school chains

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Noah Pransky of TV station WTSP adds to the excellent coverage of Florida's charter school corruption scandal. The piece is well worth...
Tuesday, September 2, 2014

Context is important.

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As you probably know, the Detroit Free Press recently ran a multipart expose on corruption in Michigan's charter schools. (You can find...

Netflix and the big swinging check syndrome

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Another post in what what was supposed be a fairly brief Netflix thread. I want to move on to other topics, but this latest news item was ju...
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Monday, September 1, 2014

Netflix and the ethics of modern journalism

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I had meant to drop this topic after the recent Emmys post , but one more issue got stuck between my teeth and I think it would be easier to...
Saturday, August 30, 2014

Barry Ritholtz on Market Timing, Wolf Richter on rigging the IPO market

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I don't have the time to do anything more than pass these along (and Joseph has even less), but these are worth your time. First, Barr...
Friday, August 29, 2014

One of the most important aspects of Common Core gets relatively little attention

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“No one ever went out to lunch with Mushari. He took nourishment alone in cheap cafeterias, and plotted the violent overthrow of the Rosewa...
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Thursday, August 28, 2014

Accountability at the LAUSD

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“If we transform human capital by ensuring there are effective employees at every level of the organization focused on improving student out...
Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Buying a reputation

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It is almost always a mistake to make too much of the Emmys. All awards are overrated but Oscars and Tonys do still bring a critical and com...
Tuesday, August 26, 2014

A joke but not a hoax

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From Valerie Strauss April 25, 2014 Dear Kindergarten Parents and Guardians, We hope this letter serves to help you better unde...

Victimology

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Karen Yi and Amy Shipley of the Sun Sentinel have a follow-up to their remarkable series on mismanagement in Florida charter schools. ...
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Monday, August 25, 2014

Yes, people are now talking about flipping schools

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I don't know that anyone saw this coming though, in retrospect, we should have. One of the recurring elements in a number of reports of ...
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Friday, August 22, 2014

Defining "bad teachers"

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One of the many bizarre elements of the wave of anti-tenure litigation is the apparent inability of the litigants to find teachers whom most...
Thursday, August 21, 2014

Terrestrial Superstation Watch

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Yet another thread we've been on a  long time . In case you are new to the party, there's a long running debate about the audience s...
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