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Bill Clinton’s Ego, redux
I think Leo Casey is wrong about the politics of Bill Clinton’s slamming Ted Kennedy. Since I agree with Leo on a large swath of education policy, including the effects of NCLB, I should explain a bit. For the most part, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama share significant rhetoric on education and quite a bit […]
At least Timothy Leary chose to drop out…
I think I understand Leary’s choices, or at least the temptation: It’s the end of two very tiring days, when I had a chance to talk for a few hours with one of the folks who tore down Florida’s old Pork Chop Gang. Short story: an undergraduate I’ve been mentoring for a few semesters had […]
Evaluating college teaching
Since my energy is now sapped, I’ll address Eduwonkette‘s four questions from yesterday: 1) How should learning be evaluated in college? There are two separate questions (what did individual students learn? and what did groups of students learn?), though I think Eduwonkette is asking more about personnel evaluation. The first two can be evaluated using […]
Higher education and the wrong battle
At Education Sector, Kevin Carey (a 4 out of 5 in my book) has an institutionalist lens that is sometimes incisive (4.5 out of 5) , sometimes frustrating (2 of 5), and occasionally both. Such as his complaint yesterday about the “Higher Ed Lobby” (my quotation marks, which are probably 1 out of 5 on […]
Chemistry or test-prep?
In Palm Beach County, high schools are ditching real science for FCAT prep. And I thought the election results were the most depressing news of the morning!