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E-book readers and faculty workflow
I agree with novelist Charlie Stress (hat tip): electronic book readers are enormously useful for people who have to read enormous amounts of text. Stress’s context is the group of acquisition editors (“slushpile” readers) he knows, but it is also true for faculty. I bought a Sony PRS-505 earlier this year in hopes of becoming […]
Jim Anderson retrospective, part 2
A few days ago I described the 20th-anniversary Jim Anderson retrospective at AERA. Now it’s my turn to address some of the topics raised in that session, in a personal historiography, or my reading of The Education of Blacks in the South, originally published in 1988. For me, the thesis of the book was not […]
Tacit knowledge and the AERA program hustle
Eduwonkette has commented on the heterogeneous quality of sessions at the American Educational Research Association annual meeting, quoted someone saying it was a tenure hustle, and suggested that the IES-funded Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness is a rival to AERA. (Oh, yes, and her friend skoolboy is right in recommending Topaz Thai.) I’ve commented […]
AERA brief note
I’m in the Delta terminal of JFK, waiting to go home to Tampa. Presented. Listened. Laughed. Bought things in both the AERA exhibit hall and also the Juliiard School bookstore (which was having a 30%-off sale on a bunch of CDs). I will be blogging later this week on a NYC nutty policy and on […]
Students Blog
Here is why I’m delighted to have the NYC Students Blog on my list of must-reads: when Bronx Science Students Walk Out, you’ll get a student perspective responding to the NY Sun article.