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YearlyKos
I’m @ the Midway airport, waiting to board. Good trip, combining friends, touristing, politics, union stuff, academics, and even a bunch of cool new t-shirts. Packed 50 hrs! I’ll blog more extensively when I get home and take care of some other tasks, but I had a good time. The session with Nebraska’s commissioner of […]
The celebrity-faculty fallacy
As noted in The Gradebook, Stanley Fish has now waded into ($) the Florida higher-ed funding battle. Like many of our fellow Florida faculty, Fish says we can’t simultaneously have great, universal, and really cheap higher education. Yet Kevin Carey has a point: Fish’s proposed solution is a search for celebrity faculty: Five straight years of steadily […]
Sara Mead: We gotta walk the walk
Last night, former Education Sector staff member Sara Mead wrote an important blog entry as a guest for Eduwonk. She pointed out that teachers unions are not the opponents to a number of reforms supported by Andy Rotherham (Eduwonk), Joe Williams (Democrats for Education Reform), and others such as charter-schools and performance pay. Liberal education […]
George Miller press conference
I’m listening right now to California Rep. George Miller’s press conference previewing his NCLB reauthorization bill. My first impression is that he’s overpromising. (He’s also talking too quickly, but his audience is a group of reporters, and the faster he talks, the more questions they can ask.) Here come the questions, reported here as topics and […]
Reading… but not what you think
Yes, I was at a local bookstore at midnight, getting two copies of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. But I’m in my office this afternoon, reading student papers. I don’t get the Harry Potter until I’m done. In other news, Jeff Solochek reports correctly that I’m now the representative of the Florida Coalition for […]