Category Archives: Progressives

Do Pro-Education ‘Reform’ Progressives Actually Know Any Teachers?

Posted on June 1, 2011 by mikethemadbiologist

Familiarity breeds understanding, not contempt.
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Posted in Education, Progressives | 9 Comments

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

Posted on April 27, 2011 by mikethemadbiologist

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

What Finland Tells Us About Teaching, Curricula, and Testing

Posted on February 28, 2011 by mikethemadbiologist

Finland’s different testing experiences–and the concerns about mathematics college preparation–demonstrate just how important curricula and educational goals are. It’s too bad reformers don’t spend time discussing those topics.
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Posted in Education, Progressives, Statistics | 3 Comments

This Should Be the Progressive Economic Argument: It’s the Employment Deficit, Stupid

Posted on February 3, 2011 by mikethemadbiologist

Let’s tackle that employment deficit.
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Posted in Economics, Progressives | 13 Comments

On Educational Metrics and Special Sandwiches

Posted on January 27, 2011 by mikethemadbiologist

We are going to see an incredible amount of faith-based ‘reasoning’ regarding education during the next few years, and it’s going to come from progressives (as opposed to the Left) as much as it will conservatives.
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Posted in Education, Progressives, Statistics, We're Really Fucked | 2 Comments

I Hope Obama Doesn’t Mention ‘Educational Efficiency’ in the State of the Union: On Misusing the Residual

Posted on January 24, 2011 by mikethemadbiologist

If you’re going to talk about education policy, get the data and the stats right.
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I Agree With Bob Somerby’s Challenge to Ezra Klein & Kevin Drum: Will Progressives Stop Engaging in Willful Ignorance About Education?

Posted on October 18, 2010 by mikethemadbiologist

The claim that U.S. education has failed is a staggering display of willful ignorance that rivals creationism.
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Posted in Education, Progressives, Unions | 6 Comments

Food Stamps Versus Educational ‘Reform’: Ketchup As a Vegetable for the 21st Century

Posted on July 18, 2010 by mikethemadbiologist

This is the same kind of ‘ketchup is a vegetable’ crap we heard from the Reagan and Bush administrations.
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Posted in Basic Human Decency, Democrats, Education, Food, Hunger, Progressives | 3 Comments

With Rube Goldberg ‘Progressives’ Like This, Who Needs Deficit Hawks?

Posted on June 18, 2010 by mikethemadbiologist

Needed: jobs, not programs.
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Posted in Economics, Fucking Morons, Progressives | 3 Comments

Oil Regulation and Why Obama and Many Progressives Need to Appreciate the Value of Losing

Posted on June 17, 2010 by mikethemadbiologist

This is something that the too-smart-for-their-own-good Democratic political operatives and their progressive apologists always fail to understand: you have to create your own opportunities for good politics.
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Posted in Democrats, Fucking Morons, Oil, Progressives | 7 Comments