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 […]
The necessary luxury?
This is a rambling post I started last year, rambling that reflects the general confusion today about how to explain the value of education and formal schooling. For the record, my answer to the question at the end is yes, but I'm trying to sort out some of the issues here rather than argue for […]
NCTQ tries mail-merge for state policy brief page on pensions
The St. Pete Times blog, The Gradebook, is reporting on the National Council on Teacher Quality release of state-level reports on teacher policy (see the NCTQ Florida brief here). Ron Matus focused on one page of the brief, about teacher pensions, which is a little surprising given that (a) the rest of the brief's content is far more […]