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Arnold Kling muses on Marc Andreessen's thoughts on online education. I think his response is a good example of just how differently teachers see learning.
The University of Michigan just earned accreditation for competency based degrees. I support this trend, especially for fields where demonstrated skills outweigh the degree itself.
Will mentioning social inequality, poverty, and class become reasons books are banned form public schools? Hey, in America we don't have rich and poor, just hard workers and lazy assholes. And we don't want our kids reading books written by those lazy assholes.
The Moral Economy of Debt.
31 States saw a decrease in the unemployment rate last month.
What makes cities successful?
Saiz’s focus is primarily on housing markets, with a particular view on understanding the demographic influences impacting their growth. “Immigration explains 50 percent of the differences in growth between metropolitan areas in the United States,” he says. “If you want to understand real estate markets or housing markets, construction values, etc., you have to understand immigration and immigration trends.”
Insurance companies are shifting away from covering weather disasters. Of course it's the financial disasters that really caught them flapping in the wind.
Americans are abandoning McDonald's. This is surprising:
A Double Quarter Pounder with cheese, fries, and a drink now totals about $7.50Paul Krugman discovers Newsmax TV while flying to Boston. Yes, it's for an audience who find Fox News to be too liberal. They are about as close to being an unintentional parody of themselves as possible. Here's the homepage.
The Hunt for Red October?
Hong Kong's leadership openly debates student protesters and then broadcasts it to the whole city. That's a very different outcome than I expected!
Meanwhile, Mark Warren interviews 90 members of congress and finds that they think they're living in hell.
"When you have these one-party districts, the only election is in the primary, and the winner of the primary will be the one who is closer to the views of the narrowest base," says Angus King, Independent senator from Maine. "You can't be moderate. Who votes in primaries? You have a 10 percent turnout in a primary election in Georgia, and Republicans are 30 percent of the population. So 10 percent of 30 percent—that's 3 percent of the population voting to choose the nominee, and then if it's a multiperson race, and the winner gets 35 percent, that's one third of 3 percent—1 percent of the population chooses the nominee, who in a gerrymandered district will be the eventual member of Congress. That is bizarre, and it has completely polarized Congress. In the primary system that we have now, there is no upside for a Republican to be reasonable. I have a friend who is a very conservative senator, and he faced a primary this year, and I said, 'Good Lord, man, what are they gonna charge you with?' And he said: 'Being reasonable.' "
St. Louis Police hold an educational training session for state legislators. We get this picture:
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Catholics are more progressive than the Vatican and almost everyone else. They must have been listening in church. Andrew Sullivan comments.
Still confused about gamergate? Watch this:
For some positive video game experiences try some Minecraft love:
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