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Poverty and Learning in Massachusetts
I’ve described before how there is a significant correlation between poverty and educational performance when we use state-level data. But as I pointed out, one of the interesting things is that the...
View ArticleOne More Reason Why One Should Wary of Stocks
Or, for that matter, jumping into the water with financial sharks under any circumstances. The NY Times has an article about the ongoing legal trials of David H. Brooks, the chief executive and...
View ArticleLinks 7/28/10
Some Wednesday links for you. Science: It’s more than genes, it’s networks and systems Unsafe at Any Meal It’s My Genome and I’ll Do What I Wanna Other: License plate of the week The 5 Signs You’re...
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Poverty and Science Education in Massachusetts
Yesterday, I described the relationship between low-income and poor performance in English and math in Massachusetts (see the post for methodological details). Well, I’ve saved the worst for...
View ArticleDoubts About the STAR Study: How Much Is Kindergarten Really Explaining?
Since I’ve been writing a lot about education, I have some brief thoughts about the NY Times report by David Leonhardt about some findings from Tennessee’s Project STAR which tracked the long-term...
View ArticleLinks 7/29/10
Some Thursday links for you. Science: The familiar Matamata, known to us all since the 1700s, and its long, fat neck (matamatas part II) Sunday Protist – Farming forams: a case of protistan agriculture...
View Article“There. Are. Four. Lights”: How Torture Became Mainstream
In his weekend roundup, driftglass reminds us that there was a time when our mainstream pop culture villified torture and praised those who attempted to resist it: And then Fox TV’s Torture Porn Show,...
View ArticleWhy We Need to Vaccinate Germ Dispersal UnitsChildren: The Whooping Cough...
Maryn McKenna makes a critical, yet neglected point about the recent whooping cough (pertussis) outbreaks that have been hitting California–one that emphasizes that vaccination not only protects the...
View ArticleOn Heffernan: For Me, ScienceBlogs Isn’t Supposed to Be a Newspaper’s Science...
I had been considering, over the weekend to write a navel gazing post about The State of ScienceBlogs and Its Relationship to the Mad Biologist. And then Virginia Heffernan of the NY Times wrote a...
View ArticleLinks 7/31/10
It’s nice outside, but if you’re stuck inside, here are some links for you. Science: ‘Friendly bacteria’ in pregnancy may prevent eczema in childhood Drug discovery in academia and NIH, a new type of...
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