- Part Two of my Teach Me Econ podcast conversation is now available.
- One thing James and I talked about in Part One of our conversation was using history as a ‘hook’ for getting more future social science teachers interested in economics. Then along comes a Weakonomics post about “Eight economic things you don’t know about the pre-civil war south and slavery” that provides a great place to start.
- In addition to an awesome “Primer for New Teachers of Economics” in the current issue
(ungated version available on my personal website), the Southern Economic Journal has a forthcoming article on “Targeting Teaching Using ESPN 30 for 30 to Teach Economics”.
By now, you may have heard about the biology professor at Louisiana State (Baton Rouge) who was removed from teaching an intro course where "more than 90 percent of the students... were failing or had dropped the class." The majority of the comments on the Inside Higher Ed story about it are supportive of the professor, particularly given that it seems like the administration did not even talk to her about the situation before acting. I tend to fall in the "there's got to be more to the story so I'll reserve judgment" camp but the story definitely struck a nerve with me, partly because I recently spent 30 minutes "debating" with a student about whether the last midterm was "too hard" and the whole conversation was super-frustrating. To give some background: I give three midterms and a cumulative final, plus have clicker points and Aplia assignments that make up about 20% of the final grade. I do not curve individual exams but will cu...
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