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theregister.co.uk - 12/17/2008

The dumb, dumb world of Malcolm Gladwell • The Register

— theregister.co.uk — Have you ever had the nagging sense that there's something not quite right with the adulation that... follows Malcolm Gladwell - the author of Tipping Point ? But you couldn't quite put your finger on it? We're here to help, dear reader. Gladwell gave ... (more) The dumb, dumb world of Malcolm Gladwell • The Register

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clivecrook.theatlantic.com - 12/17/2008

Brooks on Gladwell

— clivecrook.theatlantic.com — I am steeling myself to approach "Outliers", Malcolm Gladwell's latest. I am not an admirer, but I... can hardly complain about this further contribution to the culture--as I hope to in due course--without having read it. Since the first chapter of ... (more) Brooks on Gladwell

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yglesias.thinkprogress.org - 12/9/2008

The Malcolm Gladwell Backlash

— yglesias.thinkprogress.org — I’ve really been taken aback by a lot of the hostile response to Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers that... I’ve read. This isn’t a book without flaws. But the flaws in the book are flaws that have long been present in ... (more) The Malcolm Gladwell Backlash

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Finding the best teachers
Joanne Jacobs — You can’t tell good teachers from bad teachers (or good from bad quarterbacks) till you see them in action , writes Malcolm Gladwell in The New Yorker. So let lots of people try teaching at apprentice wages, but hire only the best, perhaps one out of four apprentices. Highly effective teachers are worth high wages. . . . there is no point in raising standards if standards don’t track with what we care about. Teaching should be open to anyone with a pulse and a college degree — and teachers should be judged after they have started their jobs, not before.   ...

Likely To Succeed?
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — Gladwell tackles the difficulty of selecting the right person for a job. A paragraph about teaching: Hanushek recently did a back-of-the-envelope calculation about what even a rudimentary focus on teacher quality could mean for the United States. If you rank the countries of the world in terms of the academic performance of their schoolchildren, the U.S. is just below average, half a standard deviation below a clump of relatively high-performing countries like Canada and Belgium. According to Hanushek, the U.S. could close that gap simply by replacing the ...

Ex Post Teacher Quality
Matthew Yglesias — ... I really highly recommend Malcolm Gladwell’s article on quarterbacks and teacher quality in the current New Yorker. Unfortunately, I think that when talking about ...