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Everything You’ve Heard About Failing Schools Is Wrong.

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Tuesday Night Links

* This Is What the Fresh Prince Theme Song Sounds Like After You Run It Through Every Language in Google Translate. * Ten Percent Of U.S. High School Students Graduating Without Basic Object Permanence...

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Procrastination Won’t Procrastinate Itself

* 1959 memo lists government regulations for Yeti hunting. 1. Royalty of Rs. 5000/- Indian Currency will have to be paid to His Majesty’s Government of Nepal for a permit to carry out an expedition in...

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Monday Night

* An intense literary debate followed the reading aloud of the story and this first question. In fact, we never got beyond it. Three tenured professors and a university administrator take a third-grade...

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Tuesday Night Links

* A Scholarship of Resistance: Bravery, Contingency, and Higher Education. * Dear Professor James, #YOLO :). Riffing on this story, though this one is also in the background somewhere. * Fat profits at...

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A Few Links for a Travelin’ Sunday

* After writing all of this I realize that I am not leaving my profession, in truth, it has left me. It no longer exists. I feel as though I have played some game halfway through its fourth quarter, a...

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Tuesday Afternoon!

* PSA from Charlie Stross: Ignore the news. Just a brief reminder that news is bad for you. No, seriously: publicly available news media in the 21st century exist solely to get eyeballs on...

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Wednesday Morning

* The wisdom of markets: hacked @AP Twitter account sends Dow Jones Industrial Average tumbling 150 points in a few seconds. * Handy charts reveal why you’ve never heard of most female SF authors. *...

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Friday Links! Tons of Them! Not All of Them Depressing!

* The kids are all right: the editorial in the Marquette Tribune today is anti-edX, anti-robo-graders. * MOOC as intellectual neocolonialism. Why online education is mostly a fantasy. The MOOC monster...

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Monday Links

* I have recently asked my colleagues at UCSD questions such as: How many adjunct/contingent/non-tenure track faculty are there in your department? Can you name them? Have you met any adjuncts for...

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Six for Friday

* The dark side of dual enrollment. There’s some interesting stuff here on how testing practices deform learning, too: We talked a little bit about the class, her performance, and where she should go...

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Pineapples Don’t Have Sleeves

Eighth grader designs standardized test that slams standardized tests.

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‘The Conditions of the Testing System Are the Conditions of a Well-Honed...

The critical flaw of accountability-based reforms lies in their view of teachers as machines capable of more or less effectively cultivating student learning. But teachers do not grow students;...

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Monday Morning Links

* Local police deploying SWAT teams against friendly poker games and barbering without a license. Insanity. * Over the past year and a half, in the wake of Thomas Philippon and Ariel Resheff’s estimate...

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Friday Links!

* Adam Kotsko follows up his piece on grad students and credit card debt with some important reflections on moralism in personal finance. * Werner Herzog presents a short film to keep you from texting...

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The University as Cargo Cult

And so we end with dystopia, with a race to the free-market bottom. What makes it a tragedy is that President Obama is right about education’s importance. Not because college augments our future...

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Even More Sunday Links!

* Breaking Bad as austerity narrative. The three bosses of Breaking Bad, Tuco, Gus, and Lydia, follow a trajectory from feudal control of territory, Tuco; to Fordist standardization of production, Gus;...

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A New Experiment in Centralizing Massive Metadata on Children to Share with...

Education technology software for prekindergarten to 12th grade is an $8 billion market, according to estimates from the Software and Information Industry Association. One major reason is the Common...

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All the Midweek Links

* CFP: The Problem of Contingency in Higher Education. CFP: Anthropocene Feminism at the Center for 21st Century Studies. * By now my students were getting a bit restless. The confidence with which...

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Friday Morning Links

* Yesterday Alice Munro won the Nobel Prize for Literature. * Over 865,200 Gallons of Fracked Oil Spill in ND, Public In Dark For Days Due to Government Shutdown. * The shutdown comes to Milwaukee too....

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