Category Archives: Learning

The Elusive Idea of Quality: A Tale of Two Titles

Posted on March 17, 2013 by

March 17, 2013 There is an important story given prominence in the today’s New York Times: talented, low-income high school students are not applying (and therefore not attending) highly selective colleges and universities, even though it wouldn’t cost them any … Continue reading →

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Evaluating Teachers: The Current View from K-12

Posted on February 24, 2013 by

February 24, 2013 Ezra Klein, the Washington Post’s chief policy wonk, has a fascinating, upbeat interview with Thomas Kane about the evaluation of teachers. Kane is professor of education and economics at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and faculty … Continue reading →

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Global Education

Posted on February 5, 2013 by

February 5, 2013 Now out in Liberal Education, the main journal of the Association of American Colleges and Universities, an article I co-wrote with Grant Cornwell, Haifa Jamal Al-Lail and Celeste Schenk: “An Education for the Twenty-First Century: Stewardship of … Continue reading →

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Teaching vs. Learning

Posted on November 15, 2012 by

November 15, 2012 Alex Tabarrok holds the Bartley J. Madden Chair in Economics at George Mason University, and, with Tyler Cowen, writes the influential and entertaining economics blog Marginal Revolution.  He’s recently written a piece for the Cato Institute on … Continue reading →

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History Lesson: Manifest Destiny

Posted on November 5, 2012 by

November 5, 2012 That’s the T-Shirt that the Gap was selling, that it has now withdrawn as offensive.  You can read the Huffington Post story here. More interesting, however, is an essay in Inside Higher Ed entitled “Why History Matters,” … Continue reading →

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