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Prevent backtalk: turn on the television!
I knew it years ago, and in two studies released earlier this month and this week, I think both in peer reviewed journals, we have it confirmed: the best way to prevent teenagers from talking back to you is to turn on the television years earlier so that they don’t develop the ability to talk […]
My brother, the health-care policy wonk
Time to kvell: my brother Stan Dorn is currently a staff member at the Urban Institute, the latest step in a long career in health policy. Yesterday, he went toe-to-toe with Douglas Holtz-Eakin, former Congressional Budget Office director, and Dennis Kneale, apparently one of the designated Yelling Heads at CNBC who asserted that 20,000 dead […]
One-Blog Schoolhouse, the Musical collection of … edited blog entries
In the last few months, in odd moments, I’ve edited about three-dozen entries I’ve written in the past few years so you could hold the new One-Blog Schoolhouse in your hands after buying it at your local internet book dealer. Why should you buy a book composed of blog entries that you could probably find […]
Cognition isn’t all that it’s cracked up to be
If I had my usual set of facilities about me, I would defer grumbling about Kevin Carey’s article in the Washington Monthly because I had work to do. But though Carey elides fairly important topics such as real trends in faculty pay, adjunctification, and trends in state support for public higher education, the real reason […]
Brief notes on a college visit
My daughter and I took advantage of Veterans Day this year to make another college-visit trip, to a different region of the country from February’s trip, this time to two Colleges of Potential Choice. I was wrong last time when I said I kept having facultyish thoughts in February as well as parent thoughts. I […]