Tuesday, June 30, 2015

Mark Thoma continues to shine

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Nobody talks about the assumptions behind free markets better than Mark Thoma, who has a new piece on the subject .  It really should be req...

Cracked, on the other hand, is very good at talking about math

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I tend to avoid Cracked.com. Their articles are thoughtful, informative and enormously entertaining. They can discuss complex, even technica...
Monday, June 29, 2015

There may be a quality control problem here -- nearing the end of the EngageNY thread

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At the teaching blog, a follow-up to the language of Eureka post using the same lesson: Eureka Math Tips for Parents -- worst SAT prep qu...
Sunday, June 28, 2015

On the teaching blog

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More on appropriate and inappropriate use of formal language in math lessons, Eureka Math Tips for Parents -- well, that clears up everyth...
Friday, June 26, 2015

Third, when you call yourselves "Great Minds," you're just asking for trouble

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A bit more background on the Eureka Math thread (see here , here and here ). First off, I volunteer as the math adviser for a urban after...
Thursday, June 25, 2015

What high school students are learning about statistics

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Yet another  post up at the teaching blog on the Common Core affiliated lessons from EngageNY. Most of it focuses on the language we use to...
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Wednesday, June 24, 2015

Defining dysfunction

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This paragraph from a recent Paul Krugman post reminded me of something I've been meaning to dig into for a while. A brief aside: I d...
Tuesday, June 23, 2015

A genuinely funny conspiracy theory

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Maybe I'm just getting around to noticing, but it seems that Cracked has been pushing their videos more into the sketch category. The re...
Monday, June 22, 2015

Captain Outrageous

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My big complaint with business journalism in the Ithuvanian Age is not just that journalists mistake luck and hype for genius, but that they...
Friday, June 19, 2015

Uber and rules

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From the comments at Cathy O'Neil's page : Uber is a worldwide company; NYC type medallions are found in just six US cities. There...
Thursday, June 18, 2015

The New Yorker's culture desk could use a fact checker

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I recently came across an uncredited piece that drove my inner film geek crazy. About halfway into the review of Ace Records’s new compilat...
Wednesday, June 17, 2015

I don't have time to comment on this one

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But I really want to. The David Brooks files: How many uncorrected mistakes does it take to be discredited?

Eugen Weber explains the origin of window shopping

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I've got a big MOOC thread (actually a MOO? thread) involving Dr. Weber and his seminal video course, the Western Tradition (previously...
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Tuesday, June 16, 2015

Over at the teaching blog

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I review  Gary Rubinstein's deep dive into Common Core-aligned assignments. What he finds is not pretty.

FYC -- AMC really, really likes Emmy Awards

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More notes from LA. As I believe we've mentioned before, certain parts of town (particularly Hollywood, North Hollywood and Studio Cit...
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