- 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”.
I came across an interesting discussion about a 19-year-old intern who was fired from The Gazette in Colorado Springs for plagiarism. There appears to be some controversy over the fact that the editor publicly named the girl in a letter to readers (explaining and apologizing for the plagiarism), with some people saying that doing so was unduly harsh because this incident will now follow her for the rest of her career. I was intrigued by this discussion for two reasons - one, it seems pretty clear to me that this was not a case of ignorance (as I have often encountered with my own students who have no idea how to paraphrase or cite correctly) and two, putting aside the offense itself, I have often struggled with how to handle situations where there are long-term repercussions for a student, repercussions that lead the overall costs to be far higher than might seem warranted for the specific situation. As an example of the latter issue, I have occasionally taught seniors who need to p
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