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Countering the hidden curriculum of iTunes
When my daughter was looking at colleges a few years ago, she visited a class at every place she considered, and as I told her, part of the reason why I encouraged the classroom visiting is because I wanted her to feel she belonged, to reduce the “imposter syndrome” that affects so many undergraduate and […]
Department chair vs. union leadership: first impressions
I’ve been responding this summer to queries about the rough, over-a-half-year exchange of union chapter presidency with department chair role with the numbers-vs.-intensity thing: I exchanged worrying about 1600+ careers in the abstract with unpredictable “where did that come from” issues, on the one hand, with a job helping 25 colleagues’ careers, 100+ grad students, […]
The bituminous tower?
A few months after arguing that education was designed entirely around industrialization, Duke University English professor Cathy Davidson admiringly refers to Ken Robinson’s TED talk and argues that “we’re really, implicitly training students to be college professors” in K-12 schooling (Davidson’s words). Put the two together and I’m wondering where all those college professors in […]
Research Calvinball
Today, Paul Krugman argued that freshwater economists (you know, the folks who don't see any evidence of neo-Keynesian confirmation in the last few years of reality) are playing a Chicago version of Calvinball. Not only do I think Bill Watterson is among the best sociologists of childhood around (I know, I know: you think of him […]
How has school attainment varied across countries in the last 50 years?
Now that Valerie Strauss has called my field the unsexy academic arena of education history, albeit while trying to calm down those affected by "Ravitch Rage," I should evidently switch fields, maybe to something sexier like economics of education or even Fuller brush sales. But before I quit not only the field of the history […]