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Odds and ends
On the good side, it’s Bastille Day, and I survived my biweekly killer workout. ((This does not mean I’m in good shape but that I’m in better shape than if I had stayed home.)) On the other hand, I’m depressed about virtually everything involving the prosecution of George Zimmerman, and not concentrating well as a result. […]
The reports of machismo are greatly exaggerated (NCTQ)
A week has passed since the National Council for Teacher Quality (NCTQ) released its report on teacher education programs across the country. Historians joke that current events become a focus of our thoughts after about 30 years or so, but that’s not true. We can start to see the broader issues of the NCTQ report […]
International workshop for free (or, rather, for time)
This weekend, Christian Ydesen (Aalborg University) and I hosted a small workshop on the comparative history of school accountability. We had six papers written by eight scholars from three time zones in two hemispheres. I’m excited by the subject of the papers — all told, the papers discussed school accountability in some detail in six […]
How to teach critical thinking: an immodest idea
This entry is going to proceed through some maddeningly vague statements, so I will start with the bottom line: currently my best idea for teaching critical thinking in social sciences or related areas is to have students wrestle with an important substantive question or puzzle in a reasonably-well-bounded area of knowledge. The structure may be […]
Brief review of Matt Reed’s “Confessions of a Community College Administrator”
I recently read Matt Reed’s Confessions of a Community College Administrator, which was released earlier this spring. Bottom line: read it if you want a good description of community colleges today and an administrator’s perspective on the dilemmas of the public 2-year college sector.