Who’s horrified by Charles Murray?
In response to Charles Murray’s three-part series of op-eds on intelligence and education in the WJS (part 1, part 2, part 3), plenty of bloggers have been quick to distance themselves from the knuckle-dragging portion of the center-right portion of the political spectrum: Jenny D. links to several. Who agrees with Murray is telling: Richard Vedder and […]
Report: Three of every two government statistics are flawed
Okay, I’m joking. The real headline from the Guardian newspaper is One in five Home Office statistics are unreliable, says department head. Maria Farrell at Crooked Timber makes the point that non-neutral claims of facts degrade public discourse. But I wonder whether even a putatively independent body can create trustworthy facts when they’re subject to subtle […]
Martin Luther King, Jr., birthday
Here are some things you could do to use today for a day on, not a day off: Check out the MLK Day of Service website Join the NAACP, American GI Forum, or another organization that works on behalf of equal rights Donate to the United Negro College Fund or other scholarship organizations Donate to […]
Figlio and Kenny paper on merit pay
David Figlio and Lawrence Kenny’s paper Individual Teacher Incentives and Student Performance (NBER, restricted) has been reported by Ed Week and discussed by Joanne Jacobs and at NCLBlog. Howard at AFT (F. Howard Nelson?) lists a number of caveats. Some more information (thanks to David Figlio for permission to crib from our e-mail correspondence): Because […]
Shoe blogging
By Sherman Dorn on January 17, 2007
I won’t blog about the video ipods that the dean helped distribute today for the faculty who are participating in the podcasting program for the college, except to say that I’ll figure out how to use the Belkin TuneTalk to record spontaneous material for podcasting, and I managed to get a decent acrylic cover for […]
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