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Sherman Dorn
A health-care mandate for education
Over the next week I’ll be writing a few entries about health care. Today, it’s the benefit of an individual mandate for college completion. The individual mandate is the package deal that goes with universal coverage, to get healthy people into the insured pool, and it’s also important to help college students finish. Every year, […]
Kristof and the public purpose of feel-good years
Charlie Barone is right: Nicholas Kristof’s column yesterday comparing TFA and the Peace Corps shows the practical limits of TFA (as well as Kristof’s ignorance about VISTA, but that’s a different story). There’s something important about consistently reminding reporters and other naive folks that TFA is not scalable. Regardless of what you think of it, […]
Florida v. Georgia — in budget crises, not football
Today’s revenue-estimating conference in Tallahassee is probably going to confirm prior state revenue estimates, which are slightly better for 2010-11 than 2009-10, but that’s like saying two broken legs are better than two broken legs and a broken floating rib. The state revenues are still far below 2006, and there are three sources of pressure on the […]
Sour-grapes agreement
Michael Olneck and Peter Sacks turn petty in letters to the editor about Diane Ravitch that the New York Times printed today. Wow. I agree with Ravitch on a number of things and disagree with her on a number of things, some of which is in our area of expertise (history of education) and some […]
Historians’ automaticity, part 1
Concerns with science and math education are nothing new, and although the rhetoric today focuses on saving the planet and the economy, the argument for urgent intensification of STEM education is remarkably similar in structure to the Cold War era debates in the 1940s through the early 1960s: our country is in crisis, we need […]