What the heck is going on with Florida State College at Jacksonville?
Relatively unnoticed in the national press has been a fairly vicious in-state back-and-forth between the leadership of Florida State College at Jacksonville and for-profit Keiser University. Here are some of the relevant stories: Emails spice up lawsuit over private colleges (Oct. 5) Short-seller Steve Eisman is in trouble with a for-profit university over this email […]
My idle thoughts on general relativity, economics, and schooling
So Paul Krugman finally saw his "maximum magnum opus," The Theory of Interstellar Trade published by a journal. As long as you understand standard microeconomics equations and the Lorentz time-dilation formula, you'll… oh, wait. You don't really need the Lorentz formulas for this one. Where he goofed was in the omission of general relativity with the very […]
Calling Joe Williams and Charlie Barone!
Tina Collins has an explosive charge in the UFT blog this morning, alleging that DFER comprises DINOs (Democrats in Name Only). We'll see how DFER responds (as I'm sure they will). Some broader context: Wall Street tends to make and give money opportunistically. Traders were happy to donate to Obama and the Democrats in 2008 […]
Do moldy schools violate Florida’s state constitution?
This week, the Orlando Sentinel has run a series of articles by Denise-Marie Balona on mold problems in schools: see the stories Sunday, Monday, and today for the entire series. It's horrific in places, boosted by counterproductive acts such as shutting down all HVAC in the damp Florida summer. But I think there's an erroneous assumption […]
Juan Williams: when people give themselves permission to act badly
By Sherman Dorn on October 24, 2010
The wonderful Muslims Wearing Things tumblr blog has the right response to Juan Williams's stupid comment, But when I get on the plane, I got to tell you, if I see people who are in Muslim garb and I think, you know, they are identifying themselves first and foremost as Muslims, I get worried. I […]
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