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Brief note justifying the lack of productivity this week
I have gotten less done this week in Seattle than I expected. I did the right thing and walked around the city as much as I could when not in the AFT convention’s business meetings. Since Seattle has real hills, this is healthy exercise, and I used the Pike Place Market six blocks from the […]
Convention dynamics
This is my second AFT convention. I observed the 2006 NEA representative assembly as a microphone volunteer, and I’ve participated in a number of other organizational meetings of various sorts over the years. With both the NEA and AFT, there’s an internal meta-procedural discussion about the openness of the meeting itself, and that happened in […]
The value of college II
An offhand reference I made last week to Lisa Delpit is nagging at me this evening. It’s the part of Other People’s Children (1995) where she talks about the existence of codes of power (what others would call tacit knowledge) and how one of the jobs of good schools should be to lay those bare, […]
Crabby comments from a higher-ed union activist
I’m in a slightly cranky mood from spending most of the last two days’ work hours on copyediting. This says little about the material I was copyediting and more about the nature of the task (and why I did not get a job to spend all of my time copyediting). So I’m ending the day […]
Concern trolling about union democracy
Over at Jay Greene’s blog, Greg Forster points out that the majority of weighted votes in the last United Federation of Teachers election were not from current classroom teachers. This is corruption! is the implication. Er, no. It’s called following the legal bylaws of an organization. I haven’t heard Forster call for the reweighting of […]