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To put on my wall…
Or at least to post on my blog so others can hold me accountable: [I]f you’ve reached the point where you don’t pay attention to anything that might disturb your orthodoxy, you’re not doing science, you’re not even pursuing a discipline. All you’re doing is perpetuating a smug, closed-minded sect. Paul Krugman, Nobodies of Macroeconomics […]
Note to Biddy Martin: You’re not the queen
Apparently University of Wisconsin-Madison chancellor Biddy Martin is blocking tweets from those who disagree with her on her preferred higher-ed policy, including her own faculty. Dear Chancellor Biddy Martin, A key way to lose confidence among faculty and students is demonstrating thin skin either by yourself directly or by whoever you have picked to manage […]
Test document for Google Docs comments available
Now that Google Docs allow comments, you may want to know how to work it and try it in a sandbox? Head to this hand-dandy Lorem Ipsum’ed document to try it out. It’ll probably be available for a few weeks for anyone to try their hand, and then I’ll take it down and change/delete this […]
Why Sherman’s blog is scarce this month…
Blogging has been interrupted by life and the metastasizing of work. I assure you, this isn't my preference (in terms of not having time to blog). But I am overdrawn from my account at the Bank of Chronos, and the bank has usurious interest rates. (Yes, the entry title scans to a certain Pat Cooksey […]
Larry Cuban honors David Tyack
Anyone who has read Tinkering toward Utopia may recall Cuban's language in today's blog entry as familiar from the prefatory material in Tinkering. David Tyack retired a number of years ago, as did Cuban, and he was honored at last fall's History of Education Society meeting at the end of the presidential address by Jon […]