“The operation of a peer-matching network would be simple. The user would identify himself by name and...
Education
A couple follow-up thoughts on DougJ’s response to my Little Republics post. First of all, I think...
In the comments, E.C. Gach imagines a charter school I’d certainly get behind: So what if in...
There are many things that can be said about this incredibly depressing article – written by a...
I would like to congratulate Justice Paul Wooten of the State Supreme Court in Manhattan for his...
Ta-Nehisi Coates bumps a comment from commenter Sorn into a full-post. It’s well worth the read. Sorn...
Stumbled on this video at James Joyner’s digs, and both the lecture and the animation are quite...
I’m a bit late to the great education debate, which is unfortunate because I did have a...
I enjoyed both Jason’s and William’s takes on the cruelty of high school (of course, any grade...
So we’re looking at preschool for our daughter – and realizing that it may be too late...
Tyler Cowen has an excellent response up to this bit from Bryan Caplan on education. Here’s Bryan:...
Lisa – I should clarify my thoughts on both merit pay and seniority. Regarding merit pay, I...
Response to E.D.: I’ve felt for a while that the pendulum was starting to swing and that...
Ezra Klein makes a good point about the ‘first-hired, last-fired’ rule governing most public school systems. In...
by Mike at the Big Stick A recent conversation has led me to do some deep thinking...
by: Dan Summers “The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.”...
Peter Gray has a fascinating piece in Psychology Today arguing, quite counter-intuitively, that in order to improve...
After evolution, classroom fights over climate science and The Big Bang Theory are the next front in...
Here’s a pretty frightening article from The Washington Monthly on how Texas’s radical State Board of Education...
Or at least it does in my hometown, which voted overwhelmingly against what would amount to an...
