* The Case for a Teacher Bar Exam. I’m skeptical: teaching is one of the skills that is least captured by standardized tests. See also “How do we hire when we can’t tell who’s right for the job?”
* The Uses of Difficulty. Maybe.
* “Uncovering Union Violence,” which “is an under-reported story.”
* “The North Dakota Stripper Boom,” which is a tale about unexpected expected consequences: “North Dakota [. . .] is experiencing an oil boom, which is leading to an overwhelmingly male population boom, which has some strange spillover consequences.”
* “The Early Education Racket: If you are reading this article, your kid probably doesn’t need to go to preschool.” Having written Head Start proposals and read a lot of studies on Head Start and similar programs, I’m not surprised, although this article focuses on the effects of relatively wealthy people (hilarious quote: “research suggests that if you have the time and money to argue over the merits of a Waldorf preschool versus a Montessori one, little Emma isn’t going to suffer either way.”)
* Thorium Reactors, by Peter Reinhardt, which explains one aspect of why thorium-powered power plants might be the future of energy.
* Tips for a successful book launch. This is interesting for its own sake and because Roosh never mentions the word “self-published.” That’s simply assumed.
* Fremen Stillsuit soon to be manufactured? Are the Bene Gesserit up next?
* Fundrise has a new project in the pipeline.
* Copy Of ‘The Scarlet Letter’ Can’t Believe The Notes High Schooler Writing In Margins.
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In Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology, David Graeber offers the following, “Around the turn of the century, the Wobblies and other anarchists played the central role in winning workers the 5- day week and 8 – hour day.”
-Just something to add to the piece on unions.
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