Monday, February 29, 2016

And, of course... Florida

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I realize we've been hammering the charters pretty hard lately, but the intention has never been a blanket condemnation. There are a lot...
Saturday, February 27, 2016

I should have posted this quote a long time ago

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 "[A]chievement tests may well be valuable indicators of general school achievement under conditions of normal teaching aimed at gener...

I don't have time to write this up...

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... and I'm not crazy about the central debt metaphor, but Josh Marshall (who has been perhaps the best political analyst on the Trump s...
Friday, February 26, 2016

As you read this, keep repeating to yourself, "second graders"

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The following is from Boston area teacher Emily Kaplan's account of her earlier experiences working for a no-excuses charter school. If...
Thursday, February 25, 2016

Ayn Rand: a continuing saga

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An Ayn Rand quote : Collectivism is the tribal premise of primordial savages who, unable to conceive of individual rights, believed that t...
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Wednesday, February 24, 2016

The Other Seccret Success Academy Tape*

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 [* Until the next one pops up.]   As mentioned before, there is reason to believe that at least part of the success Success has had at ra...
Tuesday, February 23, 2016

Just when you thought Hulu's anti-trust issues couldn't get any worse

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Hulu has always been a great example of two important business principles: First, that it is nearly impossible to get in trouble for anti-...
Monday, February 22, 2016

"Slam the Exam" = "Game the System"?

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Some 2,300 Success Academy students attended a "Slam the Exam" rally before last year's state English tests. The network g...

Losing money to build market share

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This is Joseph. A remarkable statistic from the Guardian : A recent article in The Information, a tech news site, suggests that during t...
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Saturday, February 20, 2016

While we're on the subject...

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Check out the name of this Krugman post :
Friday, February 19, 2016

Working towward a notion of plausibility -- Krugman on models

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I know I always promise I'm going to come back later and tie things together, but thiss time I really mean it. Paul Krugman -- Making ...
Thursday, February 18, 2016

"Some kids don't count"

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“The best thing that happened to the education system in New Orleans was Hurricane Katrina” Arne Duncan For those who haven't been...
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Wednesday, February 17, 2016

“[T]he feeling that you don't believe that black and brown kids can be successful" -- why culture and rhetoric of the reform movement make civil discussion so difficult

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More on the fall-out from the latest Success Academy revelation. Eva Moskowitz and the Success Academies have a long history of putting to...
Tuesday, February 16, 2016

This Mercury being less interested in carrying messages than in filtering tham

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When you spend years consuming way too much news, you start becoming alert to indications that a story is about to pick up speed. For exam...
Monday, February 15, 2016

A very good question

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This is Joseph I like this question a lot : What's the point of advocating any economic policies (either using left or right wing lo...