StickWithANose

Policy geeks are all abuzz today over the TFA data coming out of Tennessee. For the most part, the conclusions reached by the ‘report card’ on the effectiveness of TFAer’s appears to be an outlier in that most peer-reviewed studies have found that TFAer’s are [if we put the most positive face on the data [...]

In the first episode of The Corporation, the film-makers construct their analysis on the question: If a corporation is a legal person then what kind of person is it? To answer the question they do a “psychological profile” that leads to the conclusion that the modern corporation is a psychopath. Perhaps it is time to [...]

I’ve been thinking about the hollow language of conservatism quite a lot these days. As someone who is interested in the politics of education policy and reform, I’m interested in thinking through a mode of politics capable of achieving the democratic mandate of public schooling within the context of an increasingly dysfunctional political system in [...]