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Kevin Carey says that college educators are failing to teach students much of anything and concealing the information that would prove it. He’s basically right. But he might be surprised to how supportive college professors might be of efforts to do somethign about it.
Archive for December, 2009
December 18th, 2009
Category: Uncategorized
With troops in the field in Afghanistan and Iraq, Senate Republicans almost unanimously voted to filibuster the Defense Appropriations bill, merely as a procedural maneuver to block a vote on health care. The Republican vote would indeed have been unanimous had Russ Feingold, who opposes the wars, not agreed to vote for cloture in spite [...]
December 18th, 2009
Category: Technology and Society
A coinage to recognise the value of technical knowledge in the public domain.
December 17th, 2009
Category: Uncategorized
Current appearances to the contrary notwithstanding, the health care debate will not, in fact, go on forever. One of the items on the post-health-care agenda is reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), as modified by the No Child Left Behind bill passed in 2002. One of the striking features about NCLB is [...]
December 16th, 2009
Category: Affordable Care Act, Health Care
What does Bernie Sanders think he’s doing?
December 15th, 2009
Harry Reid may have to give in to blackmail from Lieberman and Snowe. But he should make them pay a price.
December 14th, 2009
Category: Uncategorized
Jackson’s tantrum about Al Gore’s choice of Joe Lieberman for veep put George W. Bush in the White House. But Lieberman’s behavior demonstrates that Jackson wasn’t wrong to portray Lieberman as a crypto-reactionary creep.
December 13th, 2009
Category: Climate change
The big difference between a 2 degree and 3 degree global warming target.
December 13th, 2009
Category: Uncategorized
If the problem is that Congress waters down progressive legislation offered by the Administration, complaints about too much centrism within the Administration are rather beside the point.