Slowing down the calving of icebergs
One AP news story on the front of the St. Pete Times today is the calving of a new giant iceberg off a Greeland glacier. In many ways, the consequences of the recession for public services is like the calving of giant icebergs, a separation of public agencies, counties, and states into chunks that will […]
Barton and Coley ignore their own data
Yesterday, John Thompson wrote about Barton and Coley report from ETS on long-term trends in the Black-White achievement gap. Like Barton and Coley, Thompson thinks Daniel Patrick Moynihan was correct about family structure and life chances. I’m sighing this morning, because Barton and Coley’s data undermine their argument, and I’m puzzled at how they could […]