BLOGS: A Quick Spin Around The Internet

What else did you expect to find?

Casting Doubt on My Pro-Testing Bias Uncle Jay
The scholarly Rothstein family, father Richard and son Jesse, are taking turns removing the intellectual underpinnings of people like me who want to judge schools based on standardized tests.

Bill Gates Vs. Harvard Law TAPPED
Bill Gates never talks about integration.

Union, KIPP Dispute in Baltimore Stephen Sawchuk
The Baltimore Sun has an important story up about a dispute over teachers' pay and working hours in one of its Knowledge Is Power Program charter schools.

Modest but real grad rate concerns Elizabeth Green
The accelerating 2009 mayoral campaign is distracting from real information inside an audit of city graduation rates released by the city comptroller’s office today.

Books That Defeated Me Kevin Drum
What famous (or, in a pinch, reasonably well known) books have you given the old college try but just couldn't get past the first hundred pages or so?  I can think of five big ones off the top of my head.

Bogus College Stereotypes The Daily Beast
Are Cornell students suicidal? Is Dartmouth all Republicans? Is Vassar really gay? Kathleen Kingsbury investigates which college reputations are bunk—and which are well-deserved.

Comments

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WHY DO ALL YOUR LINKS SAY THISWEEKINEDUCATION WHEN I CLICK THROUGH? iT MAKES IT IMPOSSIBLE TO COPY AND PASTE AND SEND THE LINKS AROUND. WHY CANT THEY JUST POP UP IN A DIFFERENT TAB/IE/FIREFOX LIKE NORMAL BLOGS?

[alexander]

THIS INTERNET MAKES ME SO CRANKY I HAVE TO WRITE EVERYTHING IN ALL CAPS, SO AS TO CONVEY MY FRUSTRATION.

seriously, this doesn't happen for me but may happen on some browsers and with some settings.

try hovering over the link without clicking and see what happens. maybe your best bet is to copy and paste the hyperlink rather than sending the URL.

or, avoid thisweekineducation.com and surf directly to http://scholasticadministrator.typepad.com/thisweekineducation,
which is the actual home of the site.

you can always email me at thisweekineducation AT gmail