Yes, Tim, there are people who bash teachers
Last week, Tim Daly argued that there was no such thing as a “bash the teacher” group. Strangely, nobody can credibly identify any members of this nefarious crowd…. Perhaps the danger lies in subversive policies, not words. Allegations of teacher bashing often surface when districts dismiss ineffective teachers…. What part of any of this could […]
Problem #37 with critical thinking
The last entry on trends in college-student studying time is a little of what Jonathan Zimmerman calls the historian’s scold (“you didn’t get that right!”), but moreso it’s an attempt to fight a popular availability bias, the thumbnail narrative of declension. As I was trimming my beard this morning (I do that every three years […]
Studying the studying study: it’s foreign-language enrollments
About a month ago, the first coverage appeared of a March paper by Philip Babcock and Mindy Marks attempting to pin down changes in college student studying. Since then, lots of people have drawn all sorts of conclusions without reading the paper very carefully. The dominant representation of the paper is the usual declension story, […]
Hello, URL
And as of 11:27 pm, August 7, 2010, the blog is switched over to WordPress. There are a few things to double-check, primarily seeing what the Feedburner feed looks like tomorrow morning, but the process was fairly painless. Comments are now WP-native, and I think there’s no way to recover the JS-Kit/old Haloscan comments. I’ll […]
“Overcaffeinated value-added enthusiasts” and the public
I’ve developed a fondness for Rick Hess’s phrasing. Whether or not I agree with him, I have to smile when he describes advocates of value-added or bust as “overcaffeinated value-added enthusiasts.” This is in the context of the back-and-forth over value-added measures in the District of Columbia teacher filings (see blog entries by Aaron Pallas, […]