(Guest post by Greg Forster)
Great news! Our schools are saved.
Billionaire Eli Broad is spending $44 million to start up a new Harvard center to figure out what’s wrong with public schools.
That’s right; the first $500 billion a year we spend on K-12 education didn’t do the job, but spending another $44 million (not per year but only once) will put us over the top.
Just like that after-dinner mint in the Monty Python sketch, I guess.
Larry Summers will head the center’s board. The Wall Street Journal reports that Summers was asked whether opening the new center was a rebuke to all the other education research centers which have been doing exactly the same thing for decades and have produced no tangible improvements in education to show for it.
Summers replied: “It’s not a rebuke to any individual.”
With respect to the fine people who work at these cushy “education laboratories,” the real edu...
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Was Larry Summers right about women and science, after all?
As the mother of two girls, I hope not. In fact, Summers himself said in his infamous comments about intrinsic differences between the genders, “I would like nothing better than to be proved wrong.”
But Summers may have been on to something, recent research suggests. Math and [...]... more
Larry Was Right From: corner.nationalreview.com Post Date: 2008-12-03 11:23:48
Right next to Kathleen Parker getting a twitter dig back at James Dobson in the Washington Post today (yes, sometimes I read print versions of newspapers), to her left, Ruth Marcus gives Larry Summers’s women-in-science thoughts a second look. I don’t know if Obama’s touch makes that column safe for a feminist to write, but there was honest thinking there that I suspect won’t make Marcus wildly popular on the left. So I’ll say thanks, even with the "boneheaded."... more
Was Larry Summers right about women and science, after all?
As the mother of two girls, I hope not. In fact, Summers himself said in his infamous comments about intrinsic differences between the genders, “I would like nothing better than to be proved wrong.”
But Summers may have been on to something, recent research suggests. Math and science test data, he noted, show gender differences at each end of the performance spectrum. In other... more
Dr. Peter Venkman : This city is headed for a disaster of biblical proportions.
Mayor : What do you mean, “biblical”?
Dr Ray Stantz : What he means is Old Testament, Mr. Mayor, real wrath of God type stuff.
Dr. Peter Venkman : Exactly.
Dr Ray Stantz : Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling!
Dr. Egon Spengler : Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes…
Winston Zeddemore : The dead rising from the grave!
Dr. Peter Venkm... more
Good Will Hunting 2: Hunting Season! (It’s Kevin Smith, so use caution)
(Guest post by Greg Forster)
Sequels are a good thing. Why does everybody complain about them?
Do they represent a new trend, one whose influence might be negative? No, they’ve been around since the medium of film began. If you’re going to assert that sequels have ruined the movies, what’s your control group?
Are sequels on average lower in quality than non-sequels? I... more
(Guest Post by Matthew Ladner)
In the New York Times campaign blog, Cal-Berkley education professor Bruce Fuller makes some wildly inaccurate assertions .
Fuller asserts:
Yet only three publicly financed voucher programs — Cleveland, Milwaukee and Washington — have survived since the early 1990s.
Fuller needs to check his facts. There are three voucher programs in Ohio alone. Two more in Arizona. Oh, and then there are voucher programs in Utah, Georgia and Louisiana. Oh, ... more
(Guest post by Greg Forster)
Last week I ran a column on Pajamas Media defending the practice of providing students with tangible rewards, including money, for academic achievement. At almost the same time that went live, Fordham’s latest Gadfly came out with a column by Liam Julian attacking the practice.
In his column, Julian wrote that a “recalcitrant youngster . . . requires strict discipline, not bribes. David Whitman’s fine new book, Sweating t... more
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