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Railside Report and Publicly Funded Research

Railside Report and Publicly Funded Research

I read an interesting riposte to a popular but controversial education research report known as the Railside Report, after the pseudonym of one of the schools. [courtesy of the Education Realist] Following on the heels of Aaron Schwartz's suicide after his pillorying by the Justice Department, I thought

Orson Scott Card on Tolkien and Joyce

Bruce Charlton excerpted a good essay by Card on his blog. I'm pretty sure I read Card's essay before, but it is worth reading again. So the "canon" consisted of books that readers, critics, and writers came to love and respect and pass from

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A pretty challenging vocabulary test

A pretty challenging vocabulary test

I got uxorious, but I missed vibrissae.

What is Conscientiousness?

Brent W. Roberts at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign has a nice page summarizing the concept of conscientiousness. Roberts mentions interesting challenges in this field of study, and even talks about the effect behaviors associated with conscientiousness have on the fate of nations. What is Conscientiousness? Conscientiousness refers to individual differences

How Culturally Isolated are you?

How Culturally Isolated are you?

Via DarwinCatholic, How Thick is Your Bubble? How Thick Is Your Bubble? Guest Score » 10 out of 20 (50% ) Result On a scale from 0 to 20 points, where 20 signifies full engagement with mainstream American culture and 0 signifies deep cultural isolation within the new upper class bubble, you

Modern Education

Via Walter Russell Mead, here is an editorial in the NY Times by Larry Summers on the future of education. Summers lists 6 things about American education he thinks are changing. The article is pretty interesting, and while I largely agree with Summers' argument, I feel there is still