Physicist at Large

I am about a third of the way through China's Examination Hell .  The first thing that jumps out at the modern reader is how familiar s...

Regular reader Phil Ebersole has a good post up that says more succinctly what I have often tried to say about tests, measures, and selecti...

The next book that I'll blog about is China's Examination Hell by Miyazaki. Americans tend to act as if the concept of high-stake...

My next book on the reading list is not an academic one that would be much for blogging.  It's Of Dice and Men , a book about gaming.  I...

First, let me make it clear that  the question in the post title does not refer to cultural contexts involving student-teacher interactions....

I haven't read Dewey, only Hofstadter's synopsis of a long and prolific career.  I will not try to summarize the summary, but I will...

Chapter 13 is the one with lots of awesome polemic.  Hofstadter clearly hates progressive education in all its forms, probably even more tha...