The Best Sequester Plan in Washington
What he said.
Why Americans Are the Weirdest People in the World
I felt like I was saying, “Duh?!” a lot during this article, yet, it is probably still the most interesting and important article I read today. A social science must-read.
Decomposition
in which personaility is attributed to users based on their statistical software choice.
America's Real Criminal Element: Lead
There is significantly less use of public health research in education policy than there should be.
Conservative Rep. Todd Rokita Named Chairman of K-12 Panel
Pretty reservoirs implications for what an ESEA Reauthorization might look like.
Colleges' Concerted Campaign for Ignorance
The National Student Clearinghouse data is good, certainly better than nothing, but it’s very disappointing that a better source of information about college-going doesn’t exist yet. Laws like this make it substantially more costly and difficult to evaluate the long run impacts of our K-12 policies while providing only an illusion of increased privacy (in my opinion).
Should the federal government be pursuing a more robust dataset for college students? What about the workforce? Where should the line be drawn, both in terms of the federal government’s role and our privacy?
This is Why We’re Broke
“Plain and simple, this is why we’re broke. As Banas put it, “same number of people, three times as much stuff” (to pay for).”
