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Blog sample for teaching purposes (Anthologize use)
Anthologize is a WordPress plug-in that allows one to select and edit blog entries for a book-like output: PDF, ePub, RTF (for further editing in a word-processor). It's in alpha form, still pretty rough, but it allowed me to select a sample of my entries for my undergraduate history of education class. The reason? No, […]
Barton and Coley ignore their own data
Yesterday, John Thompson wrote about Barton and Coley report from ETS on long-term trends in the Black-White achievement gap. Like Barton and Coley, Thompson thinks Daniel Patrick Moynihan was correct about family structure and life chances. I’m sighing this morning, because Barton and Coley’s data undermine their argument, and I’m puzzled at how they could […]
Studying the studying study: it’s foreign-language enrollments
About a month ago, the first coverage appeared of a March paper by Philip Babcock and Mindy Marks attempting to pin down changes in college student studying. Since then, lots of people have drawn all sorts of conclusions without reading the paper very carefully. The dominant representation of the paper is the usual declension story, […]
Happy George day!
Today is the Day Between for those of us who live in the U.S., though I suspect for many it’s more of a Carsickness holiday, or a How in the Heck Do I Light the Charcoal Again? day (though sometimes people delay that joy until the next day). July 3 is the Day Between, the […]
Unholy alliance proposal #573: FinReg and journalism
By Sherman Dorn on June 16, 2010
Inspired by a blog entry today by Ezra Klein’s research intern and today’s Dilbert cartoon, I had a crazy thought for addressing both the decline of commercial journalism and Wall Street lapses: is there a way to give solid journalism a revenue source that also forces more transparency/responsibility on Wall Street? One idea for better […]
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