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The politics of cut scores

Yesterday, the St. Petersburg Times published Letitia Stein’s story describing the twists and turns of setting cut scores in Florida’s 10th-grade tests. The deeper story is not the inherent tensions in setting cut scores. There’s no doubt that cut scores are arbitrary. The question is whether they are arbitrary in the sense of arbitrary and capricious […]

Who wrote Frankenstein

Germaine Greer neatly shreds John Lauritsen’s argument that Mary Shelley didn’t write Frankenstein. Hat tip: Erin O’Connor. Also see Miriam Burstein’s comments.