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Paul Krugman: What People (Don’t) Know About The Deficit
Krugman: A little while back I expressed a desire to see a poll of voters asking whether they knew about the plunging federal budget deficit. Just as a reminder, here’s what the CBO numbers for the...
View ArticleOn-Line Education: “Global Warming: The Science of Climate Change”
Offered by Coursera: Global Warming: The Science of Climate Change: This class is an introduction to the science of global warming for students without a science background. Students will examine the...
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“Maybe they were working phonetically and had a lisp?”
James Joiner (via The Weekly Sift): Last night, NBC News ran a feature comparing students in the United States to their counterparts overseas, which, to be honest, isn’t very well. So poorly, in fact,...
View ArticleLydon is back!
Christopher Lydon will be back on WBUR Thursday nights starting tonight! Years ago he hosted a morning program on BUR, The Connection, which was the best radio show I’ve ever listened to. The show...
View ArticleSenator Warren on the job
From boston.com (emphasis mine): U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren said Saturday she is shocked that the federal government is earning an estimated $66 billion in profits from student loans originated between...
View ArticleAnimal School
Once upon a time the animals decided they must do something heroic to meet the problems of a “new world” so they organized a school. They had adopted an activity curriculum consisting of running,...
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On the value of public education
John Green is an author I had not heard of before seeing the quote above. (If you follow the link in the preceding sentence he’s got a video which expands – much less cynically – on his statement...
View ArticleNASA Applied Remote Sensing Training
From the NASA ARSET website: The goal of the NASA Applied Remote SEnsing Training (ARSET) is to increase the utility of NASA earth science and model data for policy makers, regulatory agencies, and...
View ArticleLearnEO!
LearnEO! is a creation of the European Space Agency. From the LearnEO! website: LearnEO! is an Earth observation education project funded by the European Space Agency. Its aim is to increase the...
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The cost of higher education
Several months ago Mike Konczal had a piece, The [University of North Carolina] Coup and the Second Limit of Economic Liberalism. An excerpt: The UNC System Board of Governors voted unanimously to cap...
View ArticleSTEM skills and education
Two very good posts: Jamie Hall, 3 data science skills that economists can use Chad Orzel, Planning To Study Science In College? Here’s Some Advice As stated in the title, Orzel’s advice is intended...
View ArticleAll in a day at nursery school
From the daily teacher’s email: [Today] we read a book about how dinosaurs eat and we asked the children what they thought dinosaurs ate. Here are their words: [Child #1]: Meat [Child #2]: Garbage...
View ArticleThought for the Day – July 18, 2017
I read a piece in the NYT today on “pragmatic” Democratic governors. (The NYT reporter uses “pragmatic” and “pro-corporate” interchangeably where I don’t believe it’s justified, but I digress.) One of...
View ArticleThought for the Day: September 7, 2020
Northeastern dismissed 11 students the other day for violating COVID-19 social distancing rules. The university dismissed them but kept their $36,500 tuition. The elephant is the room is how did...
View ArticleThought for the Day – January 31, 2021
“Maybe it wasn’t such a great idea to reduce the number of classes that teach civics, democracy and American history?” -Michael Beschloss
View ArticleThought for the Day – December 18, 2021
Betty Hall, founder of Simon’s Rock, on education: “There is a four-year span here when youth should become acquainted with the whole range of human inquiry – man in relation to his physical...
View ArticleStudent Loan Foregiveness
So tonight I log on for the first time in god knows how long and I see an draft of a post I started to write in 2020. I haven’t touched it since – still just a brain dump and excerpts of pieces other...
View ArticleMore on Student Loan Forgiveness
Addison Del Mastro’s essay, Could You Loan Some Forgiveness?, is the best I’ve read on the subject to date. An excerpt: It’s the human cost of these loans, and the aura of fraud about them—the fact...
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