September 2012 Archive

Is The New York Times Wrong (Again) On Teacher Evaluation?

By Valerie Strauss: Last week I wrote about the push by school reformers to use student standardized test scores to evaluate teachers in a post that looked at ...

NYT Buries Occupy Wall Street

By Peter Hart: The Paper of Record has spoken: We didn't think much of Occupy before, and now what we think is that it's over. The day ...

Zadie Smith, Jay-Z, Russell Simmons & Occupy Wall Street

Ravi Katari: A recent interview with rapper and millionaire Jay-Z in T Magazine of the New York Times has caught fire not for its luminary centerpiece, but rather for his ...

A Timeline That Isn’t Boring

By Anna Codrea-Rado: Timelines are generally considered the lowest form of data visualization, because displaying data chronologically doesn’t tend to provide much journalist value. But The New ...