“The income achievement gap is now nearly twice as large as the black-white achievement gap. Fifty years ago, in contrast, the black-white gap was one and a half to two times as large as the income gap.”
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The Academic Achievement Gap Between The Rich And Poor Is Double The Gap Between Whites And Blacks | ThinkProgress
# 2011.11.23 – 09:03
Sweden and the loss of trust
If there’s one thing that might be right about this article, it’s that Sweden is the closest thing to an Ayn Rand society than any other on earth.
# 2011.11.21 – 20:02
The Innovative University by Clayton Christensen and Henry Eyring (Author Interview Series) « higher education management group
ut students on the margin, those who can’t really afford to move away from home and give up good jobs, will increasingly choose the fully online option. And those students who choose the traditional experience will increasingly want it to cost less and offer more of the benefits of online instruction, not just its flexibility but also its growing quality.
# 2011.11.21 – 14:32
Clayton Christensen: How Pursuit of Profits Kills Innovation and the U.S. Economy – Forbes
In each case Dell accepted the proposal because in each case its profitability improved: its costs declined and its revenues stayed the same. At the end of the process, however, Dell was little more than a brand, while ASUSTeK can—and does—now offer a cheaper, better computer to Best Buy at lower cost.
# 2011.11.21 – 14:32
Thomas Thwaites’s bespoke toaster
Building a Toaster from scratch. Sounds familiar.
# 2011.11.19 – 12:47
Population density fostered literacy, the Industrial Revolution « Per Square Mile
“The Industrial Revolution was fostered by a surge in literacy rates. Improvements in reading and writing were nurtured by the spread of schools. And the founding of schools was aided by rising population density.”
I don’t understand how mass literacy triggered the industrial revolution. You don’t need to be literate to operate a machine, only to invent one. And for that you only need the literacy of an elite, not of the masses.
# 2011.11.19 – 12:47
Launching Tech Ventures: The Cognitive Startup
The customer usage data collected through rapid prototyping and iteration is essentially building a limbic system—a gut—that gives feedback on how customers are responding to the product. But a gut is not sufficient.
# 2011.11.18 – 16:49
Jonathan Cohn: Why Don’t We Know Anything About The Quality Of America’s Day Care? | The New Republic
To be sure, measuring the quality of day care is difficult. It’s hard to find good ways to measure quality, let alone collect the information. In that sense, it’s the same problem that plagues efforts to measure quality of elementary and secondary education.
# 2011.11.18 – 15:18
Amazon EC2 Now #42 Supercomputer, IBM BlueGenes in the Dust
Fujitsu’s architecture for “K” is based on a theoretical six-dimensional torus, which reduces the hop count for processes between nodes by half or more, and which enables as many as 12 fault-tolerance failovers per node.
# 2011.11.18 – 11:18
TGS and RATM, Arnold Kling
“My opinion is that the chances are increasing that we will see sudden ‘tipping’ in education away from traditional models. I think that the technology is pretty much here to do better than the old-fashioned classroom. It’s being held back by the incumbents, but they are going to lose, just as the music publishers have been losing and the book publishers have been losing.”
# 2011.11.18 – 11:18
Tangotiger on knowing when you have added value
“Really, I figured: what is it that I as a single human being know more than the collective wisdom? I had no insight to add, that was really value-added. It’s hard for a person to recognize that he has nothing of value to add, but that’s how you move on in life.”
# 2011.11.17 – 14:21
A Fatal Mix of Intellect and Power
But what if you have an intellectual movement that understands the flaws of intellectualism?
# 2011.11.17 – 12:48
Leadership’s New Direction
Organizations that pursue such cultures will maximize their chances of attracting, retaining, and motivating today’s young leaders, who, like never before, seek strong alignment of their personal values with their professional ambitions.
# 2011.11.16 – 16:03
CONVERSABLE ECONOMIST: Grade Inflation and Choice of Major
I need to warn my daughters about this issue.
# 2011.11.16 – 10:03
Ideas are just a multiplier of execution
“To me, ideas are worth nothing unless executed. They are just a multiplier. Execution is worth millions.”
# 2011.11.16 – 01:32
Cycle Gap: John Gruber Has Some Career Advice For Developers
‘This is an extraordinary time to be an Apple developer.’
# 2011.11.16 – 00:06