Lot of stories about grade inflation recently — see here, here and here — so I’ll add one too. Last year, I took a graduate-level business course (the topic of the specific class was mostly micro-economics). The professor used three… Continue Reading
On surface, this whole Mack Brown thing at Texas seems like a total f’n disaster. Everyone knows the basic details, but to quickly summarize: it appears, and it could be wrong because we never completely know what happens in back rooms,… Continue Reading
I have a Roku and an Apple TV — fancy — and when my parents were here for Thanksgiving, my dad didn’t know how to carve a turkey (he had seen it done, and done it, but this isn’t necessarily muscle… Continue Reading
Best I can tell, the iPad was introduced on January 27, 2010. On March 22, 2010, Wired ran an article with the headline “How The Tablet Will Change The World.” In other words, this isn’t a very new idea; people have seen the… Continue Reading
Above, that is Denise Link; she’s the Board Chair of the Cleveland Metropolitan School District, and at the end of last month, she won the Urban Educator of the Year award from the Council of Great City Schools. When this was… Continue Reading
Some big news on the education front recently is that Tennessee, long hardly considered a hotbed of public education reform, is now making faster strides than any other state in that area. This process likely all began in 2011, when the… Continue Reading
We’ve previously talked about Michaud vs. LePage in 2014, but a ton of interesting things are happening in Maine right now. First, check out the video above (from PBS NewsHour); Maine is the first state to allow prescription drug imports from… Continue Reading