Showing posts with label The Wire. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Wire. Show all posts
Saturday, March 30, 2013

Guess what happens when you tie teachers' (and administrators') pay directly to student test scores?

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This: Ms. Parks admitted to Mr. Hyde that she was one of seven teachers — nicknamed “the chosen” — who sat in a locked windowless room e...
Monday, October 31, 2011

Krugman, The Wire beat you to it....

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Paul Krugman, desperate for a form of stimulus that Republicans can get behind, starts thinking like a disaffected detective in that epic o...
Thursday, July 14, 2011

The Baltimoring of America

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As Congress and the President go down to the wire negotiating a package of enormous spending cuts and tiny-to-nonexistent tax hikes, this st...
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Saturday, April 16, 2011

The Wire's David Simon: "Statistics will always lie" when someone's job is at stake

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Via The Dish , an interview with Bill Moyers in which Wire creator David Simon highlights the perverse effect of performance incentives: ...
Thursday, March 31, 2011

Pay for performance, Baltimore police style

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Dana Goldstein cites a a social science maxim to explain powerful evidence that former D.C.schools Chancellor  Michelle Rhee's heavy i...
Friday, January 02, 2009

Death of literature...greatly exaggerated

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David Frum laments : Literature is a declining presence in our modern society, increasingly an academic preoccupation. Intelligent young pe...