Designed to reward age discrimination?
The French government is proposing to raise the age when retirees can draw down full pensions, which sounds remarkably like the 1980s reform of Social Security, including the bump of two years, except that France is going from 60 to 62 and we’re already at 67… and a logical compromise for extending the solvency of […]
I read Giroux recently and winced…
… and then wrote an essay on another blog on how to save teacher education. Or not if your mileage varies from mine, but at least you get to read me swear.
What uses of test scores will pass legal muster in teacher evaluations?
Legal considerations on the use of test score derived stats in teacher evaluation: Scott Bauries started an interesting discussion June 2 of value-added measures and teacher evaluations from a legal perspective. It’s very important to read the comment thread, as he’s challenged on his conclusions by Bruce Baker and Preston Green, especially with regard to […]
Isn’t Florida guaranteed a republican form of government?
The first draft of the new Florida Educator Accomplished Practices was released last month for public comment on a form that allows almost little substantive feedback. The accomplished practices are supposed to serve as the minimum elements of educator preparation programs, and I understand the balance between micromanagement and platitudes is hard to strike. The […]
Unholy alliance proposal #573: FinReg and journalism
By Sherman Dorn on June 16, 2010
Inspired by a blog entry today by Ezra Klein’s research intern and today’s Dilbert cartoon, I had a crazy thought for addressing both the decline of commercial journalism and Wall Street lapses: is there a way to give solid journalism a revenue source that also forces more transparency/responsibility on Wall Street? One idea for better […]
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