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Caffeine plus inauguration = work??
About 30 minutes ago, I realized why I had a headache each of the last few mornings: caffeine withdrawal. Our 15-year-old supercaffeine machine solved that problem (and my appreciation to the nice folks at FakeSugarCompany for sending us that fake-sugar-plus-mocha flavor packet), and I now have the official inauguration streaming site up in another window. […]
Where is the bureaucracy reenactor crowd?
In the past few months, I have been struggling with how to teach a difficult topic: bureaucracy. It’s not hard to enter the topic with a class; everyone experiences bureaucracy in ways that they can talk about at one level. Generally, I find that students absorb notions of street-level bureaucrats, scripts about “real school,” and […]
Off the deep end on Griggs v. Duke Power
Before I get to the main topic this morning, my thanks to everyone who has participated in the reader survey, which will stay available through the weekend. It takes just a few minutes (or more if you want to give me lots of ideas for topics). Tell me what to do by taking the survey! […]
Matt Miller’s choice of a model politician on education policy is weird
Matt Miller is back with a fundamentally outlandish idea: At a moment when we’ve basically nationalized the banking, mortgage and insurance industries, a little nationalization of school operating costs is in tune with the times. There’s nothing inherently wrong with a little outlandishness, and he uses funding inequalities as the basic rationale to push a […]
Marbury v. Madison and the Toussie pardon?
The attempted revocation of Isaac Toussie’s pardon may not be within the scope of presidential powers, and former White House pardon attorney Margaret Love has been quoted in several places expressing skepticism. The White House statement yesterday said in part, Yesterday the President forwarded to the Pardon Attorney a Master Warrant of Clemency including 19 […]