Monthly Archives: April 2011

Why the Mad Biologist Is the Punditiest Pundit EVAH: The Ezra Klein Edition

Catching up to the Mad Biologist on the whole Rockefeller Republican thing. And why it matters.
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Posted in Progressives | 2 Comments

Intervening in the Lives of Students Who Are Poor

Joe Nocera gets it right about education.
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Posted in Education | 2 Comments

Links 4/26/11

Links for you.
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Regarding the Ph.D. Glut, Nature’s Heart Is in the Right Place, But They’re Not Following the Money

Nature doesn’t get it: neither research universities nor funders see the glut as a problem-they’re too dependent on the status quo.
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Posted in Career Stuff, Education, Funding, NIH | 11 Comments

Links 4/25/11

Last day of vacation. Links for you.
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MA State Commissioner of Education Confuses Evaluation with Personnel Management

Why economic segregation requires fundamentally overhauling the incentives for teachers–who seem to be performing extremely well with the current incentives–escapes me.
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Posted in Education, Fucking Morons, Massachusetts | 4 Comments

Links 4/24/11

Links for you.
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More on IKEA: Mistaking What Is Legal with What Is Ethical

IKEA’s behavior is legal, but not ethical.
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Posted in Bidness, Ethics | 13 Comments

‘High-Stakes’ Testing and What Education ‘Reformers’ Need to Learn

It seems, in many schools, the incentives are already adequately aligned.
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Links 4/22/11

Links for you.
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