whythawk ratings: measuring effective development

1.
(Comments)

...n the Australian outback - long before the advent of cheap computing - the School of the Air was launched. Teachers communicated with their students over ham-radio and thousands of kids got a first-c...

2. Zimbabwe: the Hollow State
(Analysis/Analysis)

...tter. The result is that the only formally employed people left in the economy are working for the state as teachers, policeman, bureaucrats, street sweepers and the like. Most formal businesses are c...

3. People, Planet and Profits: the complexities of corporate governance
(Analysis/Analysis)

... on boards in some way? "No," says Janice Hester-Amey, portfolio manager at the California State Teachers' Retirement System in the US. It's a surprising response from a union pens...

4. The Martians Really Care: four points to govern development
(Analysis/Ideas and Challenges)

...that the alien schools are much more interesting than their own schools, so they abandon them.  Polish teachers migrate towards better jobs in New York.  Sensing that things are not going we...

5. Government rewards the worst schools for poor performance
(Analysis/Analysis)

...cash to assist them out of their difficulties.  This results in the ((moral hazard)) situation where ((teachers)) get paid MORE when they do a worse job.  The ((unions)) encourage this situa...

6. X Challenge: Develop the cheapest most effective school
(Analysis/Analysis)

...ility.  One laptop per child isn’t going to change this. In essence the requirements are good teachers, a pleasant study environment conducive to learning (no guns, no gangs, and kids wi...

7. School vouchers offer the poorest an opportunity to learn at better schools
(Analysis/Analysis)

...rverse incentives to failing schools.  Bad, under-resourced schools receive extra money but, since the teachers and staff are not incentivised to improve or penalised for failure to do so, there ...

8. Senescence, the death of development
(Analysis/Analysis)

...ecide that the alien schools are much more interesting than their own schools, so they abandon them. Polish teachers migrate towards better jobs in New York. Sensing that things are not going well in ...

9. Vouchers and Individual Choice
(Analysis/Analysis)

...nual graduation scores of each of the different schools. That way parents can see which schools are better. Teachers’ Unions have become quite powerful and are extremely unhappy with these types...