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Five oft-overlooked facts about Barack Obama and education
Technically, President Obama’s second term starts tomorrow at noon EST. Chief Justice John Roberts will swear in the president privately at the White House, perhaps as an extra rehearsal to make sure the public “swearing-in” on Monday goes off without a hitch. Below are five overlooked facts about Barack Obama and education: Barack Obama was […]
Robert Francis Engs, 1943-2013
Historian Robert Engs died on Monday at the age of 69. He wrote Freedom’s First Generation (1979) about the post-Civil War Black community in and around Hampton, Virginia, and Educating the Disfranchised and Disinherited (1999), about Hampton Institute and Samuel Chapman Armstrong. He was also a member of my dissertation committee and really the only faculty […]
Social class, higher education, and random thoughts from a parent
Jason DeParle’s New York Times December 22 profile of three young women from Galveston has created a great deal of online discussion despite the holidays and semester breaks, when you’d expect most faculty and higher ed journalists are ignoring these things. But the attention is deserved, both because DeParle’s piece is beautifully detailed and because he raises important […]
Baumol, Goldin, and benchmark choices
A bit of an extension on Saturday’s entry: As an historian of education, I find Claudia Goldin to be a much more interesting economist than William Baumol, because she does not rely on arbitrary choices of starting points for her economic stories. Like many economists (and historians), Baumol tells a story that depends on a […]
ClaudiaFest reflection: Warnings about economic history and education
This weekend is a special conference held by the National Bureau of Economic Research, Human Capital and History: The American Record, or as the Twitter hashtag is suggesting, ClaudiaFest, in part a celebration of Claudia Goldin’s accomplishments as an economic historian. Oh, yes, and an economist, too. One of the papers is by Larry Katz and […]