When it comes to education, I disagree with everybody at one time or another.
This is my corner of the classroom. See that small plaque on the desktop, behind the monitor? It says, “Please don’t straighten up the mess on my desk. You will confuse me and screw up my whole world.”
For more info, see Who Am I?
July 30th, 2012 at 12:28 pm
What do you think about Andrew Hacker’s recent essay “Is Algebra Necessary” in the NYT?
Thanks for your blog.
July 31st, 2012 at 2:47 am
I’m going to post on it soon.
October 17th, 2012 at 12:33 pm
I think Bryan Caplan’s new blog post
“Does High School Algebra Pass a Cost-Benefit Test?”
http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2012/10/does_high_schoo.html
may interest you.
October 17th, 2012 at 12:44 pm
Thanks. You know you can email me, right? Or maybe I should make the emaill address more prominent.
October 19th, 2012 at 6:54 pm
Yes, I don’t remember seeing your email address. Joanne Jacobs just blogged about one of your essays http://www.joannejacobs.com/2012/10/fluent-on-facts-weak-on-abstraction/ . She refers to you as “she” but you are ornery and non-PC and I therefore assumed you were a guy
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November 30th, 2012 at 6:17 pm
Just discovered this site today, and by following a link from a site which may be populated by …ubermorvorteans?