Encyclopedia Britannica, RIP

Very sad.

On The Future of the Republican Party

Pretty soon rather than the Right Wing we'll need to start calling them the White Wing.

What's Wrong With Value-Added Models

For those interested in education policy, and more specifically in the recent trend towards tying teacher personnel policy to individual student test scores, I would point you to a devastating series of analyses by Gary Rubinstein. He's taken a look at New York City's release of teacher VAM data and found some predictably disturbing results. The short version: VAM isn't going to work.