Category Archives: Education

Deflating the Student Loan Bubble with Better Risk Management

Posted on August 6, 2017 by Jim

The student loan market is broken again: too much student debt, too many defaults, and large write-offs pending as a result of income contingent repayment. Not that it was ever fixed, but it’s gonna blow again to hemorrhage real costs … Continue reading →

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Not Random Violence, but the Consequence of Ideas

Posted on August 25, 2013 by Jim

Saturday, we saw a number of news reports on the interwebs about the murder of Delbert Belton, who fought at Okinawa, allegedly by two teenaged thugs. From these reports, we learned that robbery is bad, murder is bad, elderly combat … Continue reading →

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A Turn for DeWurst, an alternative to the state of education in America

Posted on June 19, 2013 by Jim

One of the personally most important books that I have read is Sydney Kendall’s novel A Turn for DeWurst.  I read it with my youngest daughter; its theme, plot, and character helped establish a solid foundation for real fact based … Continue reading →

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Teaching to the Test

Posted on October 3, 2012 by Jim

I found another interesting quote in Joshua M. Dunn’s Complex Justice: The Case of Missouri v. Jenkins; in 1983, Jeanne Chall (professor of education at Harvard) observed: Pre-Grade 4 reading can be said to represent the oral tradition, in that … Continue reading →

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Cargo Cult Education Reform in Public Schools

Posted on October 2, 2012 by Jim

One theme that I find in reading about innovation in education is the inability of public schools to scale promising solutions that demonstrate results in small scale tests.  Reading Joshua M Dunn’s Complex Justice: The Case of Missouri v. Jenkins, … Continue reading →

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