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Delighted at Drew’s destiny
I’m one of the many people who has crossed paths with Drew Gilpin Faust over the years, and while Harvard is only one university, I’m very happy that Faust got picked as president. I never had a class with her when I was in grad school at Penn, but she was well-known for being serious […]
Theodore Porter, Trust in Numbers, and picking the right fights
On the way to and from my mother-in-law’s house today, I finished Theodore Porter’s Trust in Numbers (1995). (I should say that I finished it while my spouse was driving!) While I was distraught this morning at Porter’s style, I slogged through, a matter which I knew was important. And the book has plenty of […]
Danziger, Contructing the Subject, and the dangers of following the trail
Thanks to a trail of other readings, I’m now delving into Theodore Potter’s Trust in Numbers (1995) and Kurt Danziger’s Constructing the Subject (1990), both relatively dense books discussing topics on the edges of my concerns with testing and professional expertise. While reading the page proofs of a book that will be coming out in […]
The "New" Commission and Jurgen Herbst
Achieve, Inc.–National Center on Education and the Economy smackdown program notes: Has anyone else noticed that the redesign recommendations of the New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce are just a wee bit inconsistent with Achieve Inc.’s American Diploma Project? End high school as we know it at the end of grade 10 […]
The final death of race-conscious desegregation
Given the news stories after yesterday’s oral argument in the Seattle and Louisville cases, it seems clear that the Supreme Court is going to strike down desegregation plans that are not court-ordered cognizant of race in any formulaic sense Affirmative action in the individualized way that Sandra Day O’Connor accepted in the Michigan law school […]