MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'greene'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:13:49 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5008140&cid=t_184863_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FweK8xfT7oaw%2F By Neal McCluskeyOver at Jay Greene’s blog, Sandra Stotsky riffs off an Education Week report about educators around the country not seeing the difference between their old state standards and new, “Common Core” standards. Stotsky offers a theory for why this is: Common Core — as far as anyone can tell because the standards-drafting process was so opaque — was put together largely by the same people responsible for the bad old state standards. As a result, maybe they really aren’t all that different. The general ignorance about the standards brings up an important point. As Mike Petrilli at the Fordham Institute has pointed out, yes, the $4.35-billion federal Race to the Top pushed a lot of states to adopt the Common Core standards, but that doesn&#8... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5008140 Thu, 07 Jul 2011 15:41:53 +0100 5008140 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4921380&cid=t_184863_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2F0_M5n3lDyiA%2F By Andrew J. CoulsonEducation scholar Jay Greene has a great new pamphlet called Why America Needs School Choice. Concise and very readable, it does a fine job of introducing the general public to the arguments and evidence in favor of market forces in education. In the process, it debunks six “canards” put forward by defenders of the status quo school monopoly. Of particular value is Jay’s explanation of why existing “school choice” policies, while often producing positive results, have not yet transformed American education. He notes that these existing programs are hobbled by enrollment limits and regulations, and thus represent only dim shadows of what truly free and competitive education marketplaces would offer. I couldn’t agree more! In fact, the... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4921380 Fri, 10 Jun 2011 21:05:38 +0100 4921380 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4670093&cid=t_184863_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2Fi1lzGPQjbo4%2F By Neal McCluskeyI probably shouldn't do this on April Fool's Day — it would be the one day they might go along with it, only to renounce it as a joke later — but Jay Greene's recent exchange with the Fordham folks reminded me of my call a few weeks ago: Fordham and other national standards supporters should declare publicly and loudly that there should be no federal involvement in "common" standards or anything associated with them.  If they really mean what they say — that they want adoption of national standards and curricula to be "purely" voluntary for states — they should not only stop asking for federal involvement, they should declare any federal meddling utterly unacceptable.   Unfortunately, Jay had to repeat that call because, so far, Fordham hasn't heeded i... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4670093 Fri, 01 Apr 2011 15:08:33 +0100 4670093 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4545018&cid=t_184863_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F03%2F04%2Fthe-costs-of-exposing-the-myth-of-free-will%2F Having recovered from the fabulous keyword=k13943&tabgroupid=icb.tabgroup119727″>Fifth Conference on Law and Mind Sciences, I’ve returned this week to my normal routine of teaching, researching, emailing, and procrastinating — but not without a new and fresh perspective. Indeed, on Thursday, as my Law and Mind Sciences seminar turned to our unit on neuroscience and I began rereading Joshua Greene and Jonathan Cohen’s article “For the Law, Neuroscience Changes Nothing and Everything,” I couldn’t help but think back to Situationist Contributor Aaron Kay’s compelling presentation on the benefits of believing in societal fairness for those who suffer from injustice.  In a series of studies, Aaron has documented that “members of disadvantaged g... The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4545018 Fri, 04 Mar 2011 04:30:24 +0100 4545018 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4377560&cid=t_184863_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FLfO1S2DmAi4%2F By Andrew J. CoulsonU. of Ark. political scientist and education scholar Jay Greene has been blogging about the proper role of science in education policy, and his thoughts (continued here) are well worth reading. In particular, he warns that trying to scientifically find “the one best way” of evaluating teachers or of teaching reading and then attempting to impose that putatively best solution on all children is ultimately misguided and destructive. I’d add that it is also unscientific. Science is humble. You have to be willing to rethink and potentially discard theories that repeatedly fail to coincide with reality. Well, the theory that governments can operate effective, efficient, innovative education systems from the top down was never supported by the evidence i... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4377560 Thu, 20 Jan 2011 13:47:49 +0100 4377560 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4327048&cid=t_184863_136_f&fid=37852&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdonnatrussell.com%2F2011%2F01%2F09%2Fchristina-taylor-greene-september-11-2001-january-8-2011%2F My new post on Politics Daily / Woman Up. Christina Taylor Green, September 11, 2001 – January 8, 2011. Christina Taylor Green Christina Taylor Green was born on September 11, 2001. She died in another public display of violence on January 8, 2011. She was shot in Tucson, along with 18 other people, including Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. Five victims died at the scene. Of the six fatalities, only Christina died at the hospital. Her uncle Greg Segalini said she took a bullet in the chest… Read the rest on Politics Daily. Christina Taylor Green, September 11, 2001 – January 8, 2011. Filed under: Politics Tagged: arizona, christina taylor green, gabrielle giffords, greene, shooting, tucson (Source: Donna Trussell) Donna Trussell blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4327048 Sun, 09 Jan 2011 16:45:41 +0100 4327048 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4298620&cid=t_184863_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fabout-patient-autonomy%2F2010.12.29 Recently, I was involved in a discussion on an email list serve and decided to takes some of my comments on patient autonomy and blog about them. This arose following a debate about whether the term “patient” engendered a sense of passivity and, therefore, whether the term should be dropped in favor of something else, like “client” or something similar. Having participated in the preparation and dissemination of the white paper on e-patients, I don’t see the need for “factions” or disagreements in the service of advancing Participatory Medicine. As Alan Greene aptly stated: “This is a big tent, with room for all.” I want all of my patients to be as autonomous as possible. In my view, their autonomy is independent of the doctor-patient r... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4298620 Wed, 29 Dec 2010 22:00:00 +0100 4298620 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4251108&cid=t_184863_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fvideo-the-too-informed-patient%2F2010.12.11 This video, “The Too-Informed Patient,” came my way lately. It’s featured on NPR’s Mar­ket­place website: The Too Informed Patient from Marketplace on Vimeo. —– The pup­peteer skit fea­tures the inter­ac­tion between a young man with a rash and his older physi­cian. The patient is an informed kind of guy: He’s checked his own med­ical record on the doctor’s web­site, read up on rashes in the Boston Globe, checked pix on WebMD, seen an episode of “Gray’s Anatomy” about a rash and, most inven­tively, checked iDiagnose, a hypo­thet­i­cal app (I hope) that led him to the con­clu­sion that he might have epi­der­mal necro­sis. “Not to worry,” the patient informs Dr. Matthews, who mean­while has been try­ing to ex... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4251108 Sat, 11 Dec 2010 19:00:28 +0100 4251108 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4151756&cid=t_184863_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2Fnhbw84wqoVs%2F By Andrew J. CoulsonK-12 school choice programs based on education tax credits are receiving a lot of attention after last week’s Supreme Court oral arguments in the Winn case. SCOTUS is likely to overturn a lower court ruling in Winn that would have hobbled or killed Arizona’s education tax credit program, and that has some folks consternated. Among the ranks of the tetchy is Kevin Carey of the Quick and the Ed. Jay Greene responds here, and concludes, in essence, that Carey is inconsistently alternating between two criticisms of tax credits whenever one is whacked with a compelling counterargument. Worth a read. Education Policy Meets Whac-a-Mole® is a post from Cato @ Liberty - Cato Institute Blog (Source: Cato-at-liberty) Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4151756 Tue, 09 Nov 2010 20:42:52 +0100 4151756 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4001714&cid=t_184863_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fvideos.videopress.com%2FaaN5YT8i%2Fjoshua-greene-plms-interview-on-moral-judgment-and-normative-questions_dvd.mp4 From The Project on Law & Mind Sciences at Harvard Law School (PLMS): Here is an outstanding interview of Joshua Greene by Harvard Law Student Jeff Pote. The interview, titled “On Moral Judgment and Normative Questions” lasts just over 58 minutes. It was conducted as part of the Law and Mind Science Seminar at Harvard. Bio: Joshua D. Greene is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. He received his A.B. at Harvard University in 1997 where he was advised by Derek Parfit. He received his PhD in Philosophy at Princeton University in 2002 having written a dissertation on the foundation of ethics advised by David Lewis and Gilbert Harman. From 2002 to 2006, when he began at Harvard, he studied as a postdoctoral fellow at Princeton in the Neuroscience of Cogn... The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4001714 Sun, 26 Sep 2010 04:01:50 +0100 4001714 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3784245&cid=t_184863_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FG8Wf-UjucxY%2F By Neal McCluskeyGreat stuff by Jay Greene this morning on yesterday’s Fordham Institute victory dance. Greene rips into the notion that conservatives should support standardization of every American kid, and even dares attack Fordham’s calculation that on “the right” only about six government-loathing libertarians have fought national standards. Perhaps most important, while I explained (yet again) why the Fordham folks and other big-government conservatives will never get the sustained high standards they want out of a government monopoly, Jay nailed the even more fundamental point: The real divide here is between people who think that policies are best when decisions are decentralized and choice and competition are enhanced versus people who think that th... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3784245 Fri, 23 Jul 2010 15:39:17 +0100 3784245 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3699464&cid=t_184863_87_f&fid=36050&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblisstree.com%2Flive%2Fkatie-couric-gloria-steinman-and-jehmu-greene-talk-women-in-media-and-the-workplace%2F We’ve got to balance the slow-jams (even though it was about a hard-core issue) with some serious stuff. Not that it’s uninteresting serious stuff – this video shows a group of smart, powerful women talking about issues that are on our hot list. Katie Couric sat down with Women’s Media Center President Jehmu Greene and Co-Founder Gloria Steinem to talk about the continuing objectification of women in the media and inequality in the workplace, and the family structure. It’s not all bad news though: Greene says that social media is contributing to media literacy among teen girls, and some of them are pushing back against over sexualized images of women in pop culture. But if the lame way women are represented in the media makes you itch for a little levity, don&#821... Breastfeeding 1-2-3 blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3699464 Fri, 25 Jun 2010 17:41:30 +0100 3699464 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3652398&cid=t_184863_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FYy22vptrYik%2F By Neal McCluskeyArguably the most troubling aspect of the push for national education standards has been the failure — maybe intentional, maybe not — of standards supporters to be up front about what they want and openly debate the pros and cons of their plans. Unfortunately, as Pioneer Institute Executive Director Jim Stergios laments today, supporters are using the same stealthy approach to implement their plans on an unsuspecting public. Standing in stark contrast to most of his national-standards brethren is the Fordham Institute’s Mike Petrilli, who graciously came to Cato last week to debate national standards and is now in a terrific blog exchange with the University of Arkansas’s Jay Greene. Petrilli deserves a lot of credit for at least trying to answer s... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3652398 Thu, 10 Jun 2010 16:47:45 +0100 3652398 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3467797&cid=t_184863_106_f&fid=34805&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FAwfulPlasticSurgery%2F%7E3%2F-3V6yYJSdfQ%2F I have gotten a few emails... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]] (Source: Awful Plastic Surgery) Awful Plastic Surgery blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3467797 Tue, 13 Apr 2010 22:02:48 +0100 3467797 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3424923&cid=t_184863_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F03%2F31%2Fjoshua-greene-to-speak-at-harvard-law-school%2F On Thursday, April 1st, the HLS Student Association for Law and Mind Sciences (SALMS) and the Harvard Graduate Mind, Brain, and Behavior (MBB) Steering Committee are hosting a talk by Joshua Greene called “Moral Cognition and the Law.” Joshua Greene is an Assistant Professor in the Psychology Department at Harvard University. He studies emotion and reason in moral judgment using behavioral experiments, functional neuroimaging (fMRI), and other neuroscientific methods.  The goal of his research is to understand how moral judgments are shaped by automatic processes, such as emotional gut reactions, and controlled cognitive processes, such as reasoning and self-control. The event will take place in Pound 101 at Harvard Law School, from 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. Free Burritos! For ... The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3424923 Wed, 31 Mar 2010 04:01:25 +0100 3424923 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3378460&cid=t_184863_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FE3DkYgcJCgU%2F By Andrew J. CoulsonMatt Ladner of the Goldwater Institute takes a good long look at national education standards on the Jay Greene blog. What, he asks, can we learn from the 1990s welfare policy debate and its outcomes? (Source: Cato-at-liberty) Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3378460 Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:47:21 +0100 3378460 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3358964&cid=t_184863_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FhMtsvk_vxmg%2F By Andrew J. CoulsonJay makes a number of good points in his blog post on the subject, but particularly effective is his likening of “voluntary” education standards to “voluntary” state speed limits tied to federal highway funding. When someone takes your money and will only give any of it back if you do as he says, are your actions really voluntary? That’s what the Obama administration and other “voluntary” standards advocates are proposing. More soon on the folly of imposing a single set of age-based education standards on the entire nation. Stay tuned. (Source: Cato-at-liberty) Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3358964 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:37:50 +0100 3358964 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3326963&cid=t_184863_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2F-gXrePdrWfA%2F By Andrew J. CoulsonJay Greene heads up the Department of Education Reform at the University of Arkansas, which has gotten federal research grants in the past. Here’s why he’s now telling the feds to get out of the education research business entirely. (Source: Cato-at-liberty) Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3326963 Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:21:24 +0100 3326963 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3275776&cid=t_184863_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FqSjM27wf6YY%2F By Andrew J. CoulsonJay Greene has responded to my review of the new Brookings Institution school choice report which he co-authored, raising a crucial issue for the education policy and research communities. Jay points out that the report is a work of realpolitik rather than scholarship, and as such contends that it must find a compromise between the policies best supported by the evidence and those that have a real chance of being implemented. He makes the related argument that incrementalism is the only realistic path to success. I agree with Jay that it’s good for analysts to find ways of improving current policy even when the ideal policies are not politically feasible. But these realpolitik recommendations must be clearly distinguished from the ideal policies themselves. ... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3275776 Tue, 16 Feb 2010 13:38:46 +0100 3275776 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3269680&cid=t_184863_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FTV3VfaOfeQE%2F By Andrew J. CoulsonA new Brookings Institution report suggests ways for the federal government to promote school choice. On the eve of its release, I voiced some practical and constitutional objections to the idea. Now that the report is out, contributing author Jay Greene asks if I’m still apprehensive. The short answer is yes. Brookings assembled an impressive group of scholars to write the report, and their education policy recommendations deserve serious consideration. Their goal of ensuring more and better access to more and better educational choices is one that I share, and I hope the following comments will help advance that goal. Good policy, like good science, is grounded in concrete evidence. Only where evidence is lacking is it wise to fall back on theory. The Brookings rep... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3269680 Fri, 12 Feb 2010 21:41:32 +0100 3269680 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3246870&cid=t_184863_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FJ8wgUf60hkI%2F By Andrew J. CoulsonIn the current City Journal, political scientist Jay Greene observes that “the test that seems to guide the Obama administration’s education priorities is not whether a policy works, but whether it serves a political constituency.” The president’s actions have forced me to conclude the same thing. (Source: Cato-at-liberty) Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3246870 Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:28:27 +0100 3246870 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3223242&cid=t_184863_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2Fctioi9RSNu4%2F By Andrew J. Coulson“Math class is tough!”  –Teen Talk Barbie Political scientist Jay Greene bravely decided to read the new NEA paper that is billed as showing that “Teachers Take ‘Pay Cut’ as Inflation Outpaces Salaries.  Average teachers’ salaries declined over the past decade.” But a funny thing happened when he reviewed the study: it didn’t support the NEA’s own claim. Here’s Jay: The only problem is that this is not what the data in the NEA report actually show.  In Table C-14 “Percentage Change in Average Salaries of Public School Teachers 1998-99 to 2008-09 (Constant $)” we see that salaries increased by 3.4% nationwide over the last decade after adjusting for inflation…. I can’t find a single tabl... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3223242 Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:37:05 +0100 3223242 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2227200&cid=t_184863_133_f&fid=35098&url=http%3A%2F%2Fclub166.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F03%2Fthinking-outside-box.html photo credit-Shutrcreative commons licenseThere are two old sayings that come to mind when I think of seclusion rooms. One's an old Japanese saying-"The nail that sticks up get's hammered down." The other one's a saying that's commonly used in surgery-"When all you've got is a hammer, everything looks like a nail." I think that both of these principles have come to govern the use of seclusion and restraints in special education. For too many years, in too many places, children who have occasional outbursts in schools have been seen as disruptions, nuisances, drains on resources, undisciplined, bad, and generally problems to be controlled. And the tools that have been most often resorted to to remedy the situation have been the ones seen to be most expedient-the use of restraints and seclus... Club 166 blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2227200 Mon, 02 Mar 2009 01:24:00 +0100 2227200 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2218535&cid=t_184863_136_f&fid=37846&url=http%3A%2F%2Fhealthinfoispower.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F02%2F26%2Ftwo-studies-address-risk-reduction-screening-for-brca-12-gene-mutation-carriers%2F “Prophylactic salpingo-oophorectomy - removal of the ovaries and fallopian tubes–reduces the relative risk of breast cancer by approximately 50 percent and the risk of ovarian and fallopian tube cancer by approximately 80 percent in women who carry a mutation in the BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene, researchers report in the January 13 online issue of the [...] (Source: Libby's H*O*P*E*) Libby's H*O*P*E* blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2218535 Thu, 26 Feb 2009 22:56:50 +0100 2218535 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1472766&cid=t_184863_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F05%2F27%2Fmoral-cognitions-abstract%2F In light of the previous post on Moral Psychology, we decided to provide the abstract to John Mikhail’s paper, “Aspects of the Theory of Moral Cognition: Investigating Intuitive Knowledge of the Prohibition of Intentional Battery and the Principle of Double Effect” (May 2002), which is available on SSRN. * * * Where do our moral intuitions come from? Are they innate? Does the brain contain a module specialized for moral judgment? Does the human genetic program contain instructions for the acquisition of a sense of justice or moral sense? Questions like these have been asked in one form or another for centuries. In this paper we take them up again, with the aim of clarifying them and developing a specific proposal for how they can be empirically investigated. The paper pr... The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1472766 Wed, 28 May 2008 00:57:12 +0100 1472766 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1470181&cid=t_184863_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F05%2F27%2Fmoral-psychology-primer%2F Dan Jones has a terrific article in the April issue of Prospect, titled “The Emerging Moral Psychology.” We’ve included some excerpts from the article below. * * * Long thought to be a topic of enquiry within the humanities, the nature of human morality is increasingly being scrutinised by the natural sciences. This shift is now beginning to provide impressive intellectual returns on investment. Philosophers, psychologists, neuroscientists, economists, primatologists and anthropologists, all borrowing liberally from each others’ insights, are putting together a novel picture of morality—a trend that University of Virginia psychologist Jonathan Haidt has described as the “new synthesis in moral psychology.” The picture emerging shows the moral sense to be the prod... The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1470181 Tue, 27 May 2008 14:41:35 +0100 1470181