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Sherman Dorn
Facebook, teacher ethics, and history
This weekend's Tampa area news story about the Plant City High School teacher who gave a student a contraceptive is at one level a story about a (former!) teacher who had no boundaries and no common sense. She had a student on her Facebook list, gave him a morning-after contraceptive package after he was worried he had […]
“Discovery learning” is inappropriate when people die
Cath Lugg's continuing discussion of LGBT students' suicides reminds us that civilization is a thin veneer. It may be ideal from one standpoint to socialize children so that they're shocked to realize there is inequality in the world, but that's a luxury that's equivalent to "discovery" preferences of some educators. When she was five years old, my […]
The deficit and empirical game-theory research
I've had my three-hour meeting for the day (yes, on Sunday), so I'm rewarding myself with a small square of spicy chocolate and a blog entry on politics. The Commission for Very Serious Person Theater is missing a huge chunk of government spending by focusing only on the federal budget deficit and ignoring state spending […]
More “serious people” theater
And in this version, Kevin Huffman even uses the term "serious people" which would make me feel better except the ideas in the Bowles-Simpson proposals are not very serious on the whole.
Fiscal theater
As Ezra Klein pointed out, the fiscal commission has not made any recommendations. Instead, what we have are a set of sometimes-serious, sometimes-blowhard recommendations from the commission's co-chairs. Sensible (or maybe obviously discrediting if otherwise): no call for the repeal of the Affordable Care Act, which has medical cost-control measures that limits the otherwise-disastrous deficits in […]