By Rosemarie Emanuele. It is said that two statisticians went deer hunting and came across a large buck facing them in a meadow. The both stopped short and looked straight at the creature. One statistician shot at the deer, with the bullet landing one foot to the right of the animal. Read more...
By Rosemarie Emanuele. I first learned of the game the “prisoner’s dilemma” while in college during what turned out to be the final decade of the Soviet Union. Read more...
By Barbara Fister. Regular readers may know that I can get cranky at times about our passion for demonstrating value and productivity in quantitative ways that encourage publishing for the sake of publishing, leaving little time for reflection or pursuit of ideas that won’t quickly provide a line for the CV. Read more...
By Barbara Fister. I recently had a fascinating conversation with Rebecca Kennison about the ambitious project she and Lisa Norberg first described publicly in a white paper back in 2014. Read more...
By Barbara Fister. When I was entering the tenth grade, my family moved from Wisconsin to Kentucky. For the first time, I was in classrooms with black students. It turned out it was an administrative mistake, and it was fixed. Read more...
By Tracy Mitrano. I own a lake house in Penn Yan, New York, on Keuka Lake. Growing up in Rochester, with Lake Ontario to the north and the Finger Lakes to the south, and the Erie Canal running almost literally in my backyard, I loved water and boats and begged my parents to get a cottage or campsite. Read more...
By Tracy Mitrano. This past week a number of Internet law and policy issues bubbled up. This post touches on a three of them: the F.C.C.; Berkeley Prof and security monitoring; Berkeley students sue Google. Read more...
By Tracy Mitrano. Every once in awhile, Scott Jaschik, my editor, let’s me go off the reservation. Today is one of those days, so if you are looking for law, technology and policy content, hold on until next week. Read more...
By Tracy Mitrano. Just as the Internet has challenged and changed the world, so too has technology begotten new meaning to the term “standards” in contemporary society. In 1976, for example, to pick the year I was 18 (read: a long time ago) and Congress passed the current foundational U.S. copyright law, if one were to ask the person on the street their associations to the word “standards,” most would have reflected on behavioral norms. Read more...
By John Warner. Do we really need to run through these arguments again and point out that education is not merely a content delivery system? Did the great MOOC hype collapse not already expose this fiction. Read more...
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