Blago’s budget is DOA.

The IEA’s Capitol Report says that Governor Blago’s budget is Dead on Arrival. And they’re not unhappy to report it. He’s still holding to his no-tax pledge, and claiming new revenues can be generated by more gaming. He received a chilly welcome at last year’s IEA Representative Assembly. I can’t imagine it will be any warmer for him when we meet in two weeks. If he shows.

In Texas, drive for accountability drives students out.

Once again the data reports that the Texas Miracle, the model for NCLB, is a huge house of cards. The Texas education story over the past years has been a story of lies and corruption. And the story continues.

A new study by researchers at Rice University and the University of Texas-Austin, finds that the Texas public school accountability system contributes directly to low graduation rates. Each year Texas public high schools lose at least 135,000 youth prior to graduation. A disproportionate number of these are African American, Latino, and English Language Learners. This study has serious implications for the nation’s schools under the federal No Child Left Behind law, which was modeled on the Texas accountability system.

Tip of the hat to It’s Time for a Change.

I don’t have a clue about what these guys are talking about.

I love linking to the Carnival of Mathematics because I don’t have a clue as to what they are talking about.

I mean:

Elliptica points out that extending the chain rule to multivariate calculus gets tricky when there is a change of variables.

But maybe they don’t know anything about Gustave Corbet.