Foundation for Individual Rights in Education jumps the shark
Twice this month I’ve agreed with National Association of Scholars head Peter Wood, but when NAS organizes what looks like a Horowitzian ideological witchhunt, they’ve lost my sympathy. I’m also at a loss to understand why the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education’s blog applauded NAS. There’s a pretty large gulf between FIRE’s support of […]
Strata game development: it’s my family’s fault
For the record, all I did was create a game to engage students in talking about education policy. But my daughter suggested we play it, even in draft form. Here’s what I learned from that first round of playtesting: The basic game is playable. Everyone started inventing stories for their families, and my son (who […]
Apologies to Liam Julian
Mea culpa. Yesterday, I linked to a Flypaper blog entry (see Google cache of the page, since the original entry is gone) that had pointed to a Wall Street Journal editorial with an ad hominem (and silly argument) asserting that Barack Obama was a hypocrite for opposing vouchers while using his own money to send […]