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Endings and beginnings
Earlier this week, the dishwasher broke. So we’ve been doing dishes by hand for a few days. We have a delivery of the new one tomorrow sometime, and the majority of the world doesn’t have dishwashers, so what am I complaining about? Not complaining, but just thinking of how doing dishes by hand is a […]
Questions while procrastinating while grading
The Friday-at-the-end-of-finals-week edition… Did President Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize speech as a wartime president demonstrate that irony is not dead, or what? Is the last question rhetorical, or what? Is Hannukah a holiday that celebrates energy efficiency, oil wars, or insurgencies? Why do no schools have a food as a mascot (e.g., the Souffles)? (My […]
Online grandiosity failed, so get back to work
So U21 Global looks like it’s failing, after the dumping of U of I Global and the morphing of Western Governors from the “we’re going to conquer the world through online enrollments” stage into the “we’ll settle for 10,000 students based on a Netflix model of tuition with half of our students in teacher ed” […]
My phone number is more accurate than your research
One minor irritation while I’ve been an editor this past half-decade has been the occasional slight sign that a manuscript author dumped the entire output of SPSS or SAS into a table, complete with 10 digits of specificity. Ten digits! Yes, these folks who compute regression coefficients, p-values, and R2 to the tenth digit based […]
Race to the Top: review, revise, redux
I am in California this weekend for the Social Science History Association annual meeting, where we get to talk about Maris Vinovskis’s book on the last quarter century of school reform, and since one of my copanelists Saturday morning is Jennifer Jennings, I finally get to meet the sociologist-formerly-known-as-Eduwonkette in person, face to face. Because […]