What the iPad will and will not be
Last time I wrote about electronic readers, it was before the announcement of the Messiah Tablet iPad. Well, it’s Pi Day, and whether or not the circle has been squared, for the first time in my life I’ve given money to a Steve Jobs company for hardware. As I noted in January, I hate reading PDFs […]
Petrilli nails ESEA reauthorization proposal
After finishing the last entry, I realized I should write something about Friday’s USDOE proposal on ESEA reauthorization. But procrastination is sometimes a serendipitous thing, thanks to the Fordham blog: Mike Petrilli’s analysis is correct, at least on first approximation. A narrative framework is not statutory language, Duncan’s proposal isn’t George Miller’s, and other Beelzebubs squatting in […]
Health care reform: how to save lives and money and maybe defuse debates about teaching
Another reason for the House to pass the Senate’s health-care bill and both houses to pass a tweak through reconciliation: it would expand existing comparative-effectiveness studies. Currently, massive advertising by pharmaceutics is feeding Americans’ existing tendency to ask for huge amounts of wasteful spending on imaging/testing, drugs, and surgery. While NPR has highlighted the cooptation […]