Weingarten, teacher evaluation, and the long haul
I started this entry Tuesday, before the Haiti earthquake, thinking about long-term policy changes. There are a number of students and staff at USF, as well as Tampa-area residents, who are worried about relatives or who are now in mourning. Sometimes the long term pauses while you take care of immediate needs. Well, it doesn’t […]
Haiti earthquake
The major earthquake near Port-au-Prince has destroyed hundreds of buildings in the Haiti capital, probably killed thousands, and the news looks very bad. The Lambi Fund blog entry is brief and upsetting. If there’s one good thing, it’s that when I attempted to donate to the Lambi Fund, the form is hanging on submission, and I hope that’s […]
Spot temperature:Climate::Test score:____________
I fully expect that within a week (if not yet already) some climate-change skeptic will use the cold wave currently freezing much of the country as an argument that climate changing really isn’t happening. And every time there’s a vicious cold snap in winter or a cooler-than-average summer we get the argument. And some reporter […]
And Bill Brass would run through the streets of Edinburgh shouting “Eureqa!”
If you are a social scientist and haven’t checked out Eureqa, you should spend a few hours playing with it in the next few months, because it’s entirely different from your prior experiences with statistical software. Featured in a Wired article last month, Download Your Own Robot Scientist, Eureqa is not a scientist but a […]
Wannabe education reformers in the U.S. need to use English
Confession: I do not have a professional editor review these blog entries before they become publicly available. As a result, there is the odd grammatical error that I notice only after publication. And yet, I do not abuse the English language deliberately. In contrast, one of the least attractive stylistic tendencies of wannabe reformers, reformists, […]