Archive for March 2010
The Pacific starts
(Video: The Pacific trailer) HBO aired the premiere of its new ten-part series, The Pacific, last night. It was, as the network says, an “event”. The Pacific is a drama about the US Marine Corps operations in the Second World War’s Pacific theatre. Many are referring to it as similar to Band of Brothers (a […]
Restoring teacher authority
Guest Post by Alex Standish Good teaching is essential to learning, yet interference by politicians, policymakers and business in schools has undermined the authority of teachers. We need to value the transfer of knowledge for its own sake and give teachers the freedom to educate. Elizabeth Green’s recent article the New York Times Magazine (“Building a better teacher”) contains some […]
The New York taxicab rip-off
New York’s yellow taxicabs are iconic. So iconic, that I put one up on my blog’s masthead. But news arrived this weekend of a “mind-boggling rip-off” in which cabbies were found price-gouging customers over the past two years – to the tune of $4-$5 per ride for 1.8 million rides, for a total of $8.3M. The trick was to charge […]
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