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And now, a break from the normal type of entry on this blog
Wow (backup for citation, since the Nobel’s servers are slammed right now). In the perennial struggle to decide whether the Nobel Peace Prize should be a Courage Award or a Behavioral Reinforcement for Moving in the Right Direction, the Nobel Peace Prize Committee used the 2009 award for the latter. I think the prize committee […]
The Child has arrived!
This week I received my contributor’s copy of The Child: An Encyclopedic Companion. I have a single entry (on dropouts), and it’s clear there’s lots of good stuff in it on a range of topics, including a substantial section with historical and social-science perspectives on families. I think the cost is about on par for […]
Reality-check request
I have what should be a more long-lasting podcast that I’m starting for both of my classes this semester. It’ll be a set of historical perspectives on education news, and it should be public-access, though it’s hosted on a walled-garden CMS. Right now there are three podcasts, and I’d appreciate if someone could try to […]
The liberal arts and narratives of declension
There is a teacher’s voice in my head, asking the logical question of New York Times reporter Patricia Cohen who speculated whether the humanities are in decline (perhaps because of the Great Recession) and whether older history subdisciplines are also in decline: “where did she go to school, and who were her teachers?” Evidently, the […]
The clinching argument for national curriculum standards
“Let’s do it now, before total nuts from Texas take over!” To be truthful, there have also been nuts in New York, Florida, California, and other places (and of various flavors) where a state’s size gives enormous temptations to warp the textbook approval process as leverage for controlling the entire country’s text market. That’s not […]