Groundhogcalypse
I am writing this Far Too Late in the Evening, but I've set it to appear on Groundhog's Day morning. At this point, it's clear that a good part of the Midwest and Northeast is either in the midst of or facing serious prospects of being slammed by a gobsmacker storm, so I strongly suspect […]
Cousin of Senate Bill 6
Florida state Senator Wise has filed Senate Bill 736, the first bill to be filed as a successor to last year's vetoed Senate Bill 6. At a quick run-through, it has performance pay and some state-level evaluation requirements, both of which are more flexible than the language in last year's Senate Bill 6 and, at […]
Old wine, new bottle
Except for last year's interesting article on Egyptian education politics by Ginsburg et al., the following is about all I can say about the current turmoil in Egypt other than hoping for the best for Egyptian citizens and acknowledging the following formulation is a few thousand years late: Hey! Mubarak! LET YOUR PEOPLE GO!!!!!
What’s fraud in love and schooling?
More developments on the story of the Ohio mother who lied about her address so her kids could attend the school she wanted them to attend, now with Secretary of Education Arne Duncan's ‘morally unacceptable’ comments thrown into the mix. Some historical perspective: Living or pretending to live somewhere else is a fairly standard family tactic to […]
Tyler Cowen and Goldin/Katz
At least briefly today, Paul Krugman turned into a social historian talking about kitchens and mundane life changes. I'd call him out for encroaching on my territory except that Carl Becker would call baloney on me, and I agree with the gist of Krugman's point, which echoes Tyler Cowen's: recent results on productivity and incomes for […]