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Jun 25, 2009

Counter-productive

The new Carbon Counter in New York City is counterproductive. It gets the science exactly wrong.

Jun 22, 2009

The Food Crisis, Hovering at the Margins,

A year ago the global food crisis was front and center in international circles. Today, you’d be hard pressed to find the phrase appear at all. But the problems so evident last year have not been solved, they’ve mostly just been displaced from their position at the top of the crisis list. With the rapid spread of Ug99 wheat stem rust, we could be facing a food crisis soon that utterly dwarfs the last two years.

Jun 12, 2009

Experiments with Merit Salaries Under Attack

There is no conclusive evidence as of yet that paying teachers for their performance in the classroom in fact results in better learning for students. But a number of experiments aimed at understanding whether it can are being driven by intuitive sense, and the fact that the non-experimental research available is positive.

Jun 10, 2009

The Annual Dance around GivingUSA

GivingUSA announced its annual tally of philanthropic giving in the United States (in this case covering 2008). The numbers this year unsurprisingly show a roughly 6 percent decline in giving in 2008. You can read the numbers positively or negatively, but it bears repeating several points about how these numbers are generated before taking either the positive or negative interpretations to heart.