I’m a bit late to the great education debate, which is unfortunate because I did have a...
Education
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...
Will backtracked last week from this post, which included a chart detailing federal spending increases in education...
Jason Kuznicki produces a pretty damning chart comparing federal expenditures to educational achievement. Looking at the numbers,...
Merit pay’s out, but teacher job security may still take a hit. Here’s The Washington Post on...
Picking up the merit pay ball from Will for a moment, let’s hash out a few competing...
Stepping back from the weeds of the merit pay debate, it’s kind of amazing to survey the...
I confess I’m somewhat baffled by Dana Goldstein’s beef with merit pay: Forty years of psychological research...
One thing I thought about reading this Hot Air post is that if a lot of the...
