Nothing fuzzy about fuzzy math
George W. Bush is probably responsible for people calling constructivist math advocacy “fuzzy math”. There is a field called fuzzy logic, and while I know very little about it, I’m irritated that the former president’s maladroit use of English is messing up technical terminology. Fuzzy logic is a useful tool in engineering, and while Lotfi […]
See-no-knowledge in education policy?
I seem to be reading several “we don’t know anything so let’s plow ahead” arguments in education think-tankery, from Mike Petrilli’s argument that because we don’t currently have a solid research base about how to turn schools around, we shouldn’t try, to Kevin Carey’s consistent argument in Education Sector’s blog that because there is no […]