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- Added on: Feb 22nd, 2005
- Country: United States
- Language: English
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Recent Posts
And so it begins.... again.
I don't really gamble, but I wish I'd bet someone that our state would be short of money before we even got to the January budget proposal. This Sacramento Bee story explains where we stand. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger estimated Monday that Californi...
Evidence that our Elected Officials are Out of Touch
I don't think there are many people who believe that our elected officials reflect the people that they're supposed to represent. Here's some data to back up that belief in a Politico.com posting. Talk about bad timing. As Washington reels from the ...
Discrimination in Grading Practices
I thought this was an interesting Education Week post about a Harvard University study that looked at how cultural prejudices impact grading practices. Study Shows How Discrimination Creeps Into Grading Practices A study released this month by Harvar...
Server Migration
Greetings, I'm in the middle of a server migration. It is not going quite as nicely as I had hoped. If you experience a little weirdness on the site, please be patient, the part caused by the server migration should disappear soon. The rest of the...
You don\'t poke the snarling dog!
I was amazed and appalled to see this Chico Enterprise Record story. I realize that Chico Unified is in a dire financial situation, perhaps worse than most other districts. I read a story recently that they were seriously considering asking for a s...
How effective are Teacher\'s Unions?
I thought this story which I saw on this week's EIA Communique was really interesting. Using data from school districts in Iowa, Indiana and Minnesota, Cornell economist Michael Lovenheim compared district spending trends before and after each distri...
