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Power and authority in oral history, public history, quantitative social history, and now digital history, …
Thus far, submitting a chapter for Writing History of the Digital Age has been one of the more engaging and enjoyable bits of writing and scholarly interaction I’ve had in almost a quarter century in my field. The public discussion (including comments by the peer reviewers for the press) has been productive from my perspective as an […]
The continuing strength of public beliefs in human-capital arguments
This afternoon Andy Rotherham’s blog entry highlighted unusually high agreement in a Lake Research survey with a generic statement about the economic rationale for improving high school academics. I’ve been sitting on some thoughts about Tyler Cowen, Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee, John Marsh, and others, but the general pattern here should not surprise anyone. Americans continue to […]
Old-fashioned alt-academic careers: Diane Ravitch
Take an alternative route from academic training, acquire elder-statecraft status, say what you want, get written up. That’s pretty much what happened to Diane Ravitch, as told either by Dana Goldstein or Kevin Carey this year. ((See the responses to Carey’s recent piece by Goldstein and Mike Petrilli. I don’t know the extent to which […]
Buy these books on dropping out and graduation
Two new books I saw at the History of Education Society meeting in Chicago and strongly recommend on a topic I began my career with: Russell Rumberger, Dropping Out (Harvard University Press, 2011). This is the definitive summary of research on the subject. It is depressing at times, but if you care about the subject, […]
Writing History in the Digital Age: Open Review
If you are interested in commenting on a born-digital edited volume about historical scholarship while it is in progress, please head over to Writing History in the Digital Age (opens new window), to which I have contributed an essay. Today begins an open review period that will last through mid-November. Below is the open invitation from […]