Big long show this time. Lots of stuff about education! Enjoy.
DS#90: A Leaning Tower of PISA Stories
Top Links
- Major General Michael Lehnert calls for closing Guantanamo Bay prison base
- Fort Worth: A case study in fracking’s bad side
- Got Dough? How Billionaires Rule our Schools
- Take Action: Congress must investigate drones
Current Events
Economics
- Japan is showing the world that stimulus works
- A Hard lesson from Motown: They will steal your pension
- DN: Detroit bankruptcy
- Demos Report on Detroit
- Fast food CEOs take in taxpayer-subsidized pay
- Fast food workers of the world unite
- Pope 1, Wall Street 0
Education
- Diane Ravitch responds to Bill Gates
- Vanity Fair on Microsoft and “stacked ranking”
- PISA!
- Shanghai teens top international education ranking, OECD says
- Jiang Xueqin, deputy principal of Tsinghua University High School in Beijing, responds
- The Guardian on PISA results
- WSJ: Two cheers for Shanghai
- Jan 2013: Class a major factor in PISA results
- The fetishization of international test scores
- WSJ: Let’s end the education arms race
- Forbes: Education is working just fine
Killer Robots, Etc
- Debbie Morris is an amazing person
- Our government has weaponized the internet. Here’s how they did it.
- Why Chaucer said ‘ax’
Hip-Hop
Mantra
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