Paul E. Peterson interviews David Figlio, the Gordon Fyfe Professor of Economics and Education at the University of Rochester
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Evidence from Florida, home of the first statewide mandate
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Today's links In praise of vultures: They screw you because they can. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Linus v MSFT; Argentina v MSFT; Danny Hillis on theme parks v games; Smartfilter v Distributed Boing Boing; Rental laptops filled with spyware; Torture didn't help capture bin Laden; Massively parallel Apple //e; Stephen Harper v election law; John Deere v Iowa…
Yang fondly recalls the students he got to know in his summer teaching in Taiwan, though some of them gave him trouble.
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My first computer was a Commodore 128D, a successor to the Commodore 64. It had different modes you could boot into, but I almost exclusively used the C64 mode, so basically I had a C64 in a much less iconic form factor. The “D” stands for desktop - it was basically just one of those typical grey 80s/90s computer boxes, mostly indistinguishable from any IBM PC at the time.
I spent a lot of time…
How changes to federal policy on what counts as discrimination will affect schools
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En 2017, la Royal Navy avait été obligée de reprendre en main l’équipage du sous-marin nucléaire d’engins [SNLE] HMS Vigilant après le renvoi de neuf marins pour avoir consommé de la drogue. Bis repetita deux ans plus tard, cette fois avec le SNLE HMS Vengeance, à bord duquel trois sous-mariniers furent contrôlés positifs à la...
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Teachers say focusing on students’ social and emotional wellbeing to address discipline has left classrooms harder to manage than ever
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Linda in Salisbury, North Carolina, wonders why boxing is called the sweet science, since there’s nothing obviously sweet about a bruising sport. This term took hold among British sportswriters in the early 19th century as promoters tried to frame boxing as a disciplined craft rather than mere brawling. The expression is closely associated with the […]
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