I shared yesterday’s Brief about Finland’s success in international testing standards (success that flies in the face of “teaching testing”) with a local message board that is a space of community conjunction between the municipality…
Date Archives November 2011
Lessons From Finland: Against “Capital” Values for Education Systems
Finland’s secret to educational success? Do exactly the opposite of the US. While that might not be written anywhere, that is literally the case. Finland’s Teacher-Student ratio in secondary school? About 12-1. We keep pushing…
How to Blind Justice
Greenwald’s new book (With Liberty and Justice for Some) arrived yesterday. As is my, er, usual practice, I repaired to the water closet for a prefatory inspection. I will offer the full amount of the…
The Barbaric Heart of the Market and Its Acolytes
If you’re an Errant reader (thanks!) then you’re aware of my visceral negative reaction to the blog by Walmart scholar Jay Greene called, imaginatively, “Jay P. Greene’s Blog” (do you think he meant the “P”…
Why Wasteful Spending Is Preferable: Economics is Psychology
I’m not a fan of economics. I’d rank it well below Freudian psychology as a sociology masquerading as, or yearning to be seen as, a “science”. Of course, I’m no great fan of the myriad…