What’s Wrong with Economic Models?

Questioning Astrophysics and Revealing Connections between Stellar Ignition , Luminous

Ours is a time of unparalleled richness in astronomical observations, but understanding seems to be absent throughout broad areas of astrophysics. Among some groups of astrophysicists there appears to be measured degrees of consensus, as indicated by the prevalence of so-called “standard models”, but in science consensus is nonsense; science is a logical process, not a democratic process, and l...

What’s Wrong with South African Schools?

What’s Wrong with Spreadsheets – and How To Fix them with Analytica

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PUBLICS AND MARKETS What’s wrong with Neoliberalism?

Neoliberalism has become a key object of analysis in human geography in the last decade. Although the words neoliberal and neoliberalism have been around for a long while, it is only since the end of the 1990s that they have taken on the aura of grand theoretical terms. 'Neoliberalism' emerges as an object of conceptual and empirical reflection in the process of restoring to view a sense of pol...

What’s still wrong with rubrics: Focusing on the consistency of performance criteria across scale levels

Scoring rubrics are currently used by students and teachers in classrooms from kindergarten to college across North America. They are popular because they can be created for or adapted to a variety of subjects and situations. Scoring rubrics are especially useful in assessment for learning because they contain qualitative descriptions of performance criteria that work well within the process of...