December 2011
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tumblr is doing a great job of promoting missing...
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“We lost our hat, a-s and overcoat in Iraq. We gained nothing and the source of...”
– Sic Semper Tyrannis : “Half Devil and Half Child” ?
“Take up the White Man’s burden— Send forth the best ye breed— Go bind your sons to exile To serve your captives’ need; To wait in heavy harness, On fluttered folk and wild— Your...
Silly tumblr..
Paying Teachers More Works →
letterstomycountry:
Sullivan posts the following graph, and quotes recent research by Peter Dolton and Oscar Marcenaro-Gutierrez:
[I]mproving teachers’ pay improves their standing in a country’s income distribution and hence the national status of teaching as a profession. As a result of this higher status, more young people will want to become teachers. This in turn makes teaching a more...
Paying Teachers More Works →
letterstomycountry:
Sullivan posts the following graph, and quotes recent research by Peter Dolton and Oscar Marcenaro-Gutierrez:
[I]mproving teachers’ pay improves their standing in a country’s income distribution and hence the national status of teaching as a profession. As a result of this higher status, more young people will want to become teachers. This in turn makes teaching a more...
Paying Teachers More Works →
letterstomycountry:
Sullivan posts the following graph, and quotes recent research by Peter Dolton and Oscar Marcenaro-Gutierrez:
[I]mproving teachers’ pay improves their standing in a country’s income distribution and hence the national status of teaching as a profession. As a result of this higher status, more young people will want to become teachers. This in turn makes teaching a more...
“PolitiFact doubtless regards its having criticized both Republicans and...”
– What ‘Fact Checkers’ Call Lies, I Call Politics: Ramesh Ponnuru - Bloomberg
This is right, of course.
(via jeffmiller)
U.S. Congress Stops Ethanol Subsidies & Tariff on... →
After spending thirty years and $45 billion dollars encouraging the use of ethanol the United States Congress has adjourned for the year without extending tax subsidies to the to ethanol industry. The subsidy currently costs taxpayers $6 billion a year. A related import tariff on Brazilian ethanol was also allowed to expire. With a wide group of critics, cutting across political and ideological...
The Olive Garden Has No Choice But to Overcook... →
[Photo: diaper/Flickr]
The restaurant chain Olive Garden offers genuine Italian cuisine in anauthentic Tuscan environment that only Darden Restaurants, Inc., a multi-brand restaurant operator headquartered in Florida, could provide. And today the Wall Street Journal pulls back the curtain a bit and confirms that the Olive Garden and its diners might just be the absolute worst.
The Olive Garden...
“This really is the end of the program we now know as Medicare. Maybe PolitiFact...”
– Paul Krugman: More PolitiFact - NYTimes.com
Politifact, R.I.P. - NYTimes.com →
Why do Finland’s schools get the best results? →
gilmoure:
Primary and secondary schooling is combined, so the pupils don’t have to change schools at age 13. They avoid a potentially disruptive transition from one school to another.
Teacher Marjaana Arovaara-Heikkinen believes keeping the same pupils in her classroom for several years also makes her job a lot easier.
”I’m like growing up with my children, I see the problems they have when...
“During the period when the most incendiary items appeared—roughly 1989 to...”
– Grappling With Ron Paul’s Racist Newsletters - Conor Friedersdorf - Politics - The Atlantic
an open strategy of exploiting racial and class resentment to build a coalition with populist “paleoconservatives”
“But rather than argue against global climate science in scientific terms—the...”
– Politicalprof: The Republicans’ Enlightenment Problem
The Magic of Polling →
jasencomstock:
kohenari:
Seth Masket patiently explains polling to Roger Simon, who actually wrote a piece for Politico that seems to inquire whether or not polls are magical:
You really don’t need to be a statistician to understand this stuff. Why can a survey of 1,100 people be accurate in telling us how the whole nation is thinking? The metaphor I always liked was a blood test. For a...
Anonymous asked: Fortran?
