Hard predictions at the asymptotes, union version
Shorter story of the Wisconsin conflict over collective bargaining, Yglesias Depressing Version: [T]he classic postwar American dynamic of an economy with a large minority of the workforce unionized is fundamentally unstable. In the long-run the two equilibria are toward a non-union economy or else toward the Nordic model where virtually everyone is in a union. […]
New York Times describes the fall of the blog
The death of the blog was announced today by the paper of record: Blogs Wane as the Young Drift to Sites Like Twitter. I’d say more, but I’m approaching my character lim
Why the “disrupting college” argument doesn’t stick
The Center for American Progress has released Clay Christensen's latest spinoff argument, Disrupting College. Kevin Carey has some smart observations at Ed Sector's Quick and Ed blog. I had a different visceral reaction to the 80-page pamphlet: meh. Not from a "oh dear oh me oh my the sky is falling" angle but "sheesh, this is what Christensen thinks […]
Fordham and history trivia fetish
The Fordham Institute's review of Florida's social-studies standards for history content simultaneously lauds the standards for a generally good outline and then castigates the state for not including more "specifics." Maybe the reviewers at Fordham were unaware that there are only 180 school days in the calendar, and they certainly didn't see the draft with […]
Moody’s warning on Florida state budget
Wow: According to the Orlando Sentinel education blog, Moody’s has just issued a warning on Governor Rick Scott’s budget proposal, saying that if the state budget cuts as deeply into education as proposed by the governor, ratings for individual school districts would drop. That’s an interesting twist on state-local relationships. I have no clue how […]