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Sick leave
Laura Pohl riffs off the new Center for American Progress report suggesting that districts pay teachers for part of unused sick leave. Many already do, and as the author notes, there isn’t much research on the details. I just wish I didn’t quite so immediate an interest in this topic. Given the state of my […]
Conference post-mortem
Notes made while the caffeine is infusing into the bloodstream: A well-loaded MP3 player can make a 5-hour drive better, but that doesn’t mean that my body likes me any more afterwards. Watching your team lose with your son after the second such 5-hour drive in a weekend? I suppose I earned beaucoup parent points, […]
1200-baud modems as a metaphor for a hotel
My hotel room is nice, a comfortable place in which to work. I just wish that the internet connection here had any speed but interminable. For the record: if you are waiting for something from me that requires I do something online (journal, database stuff, etc.), you will probably be waiting until early next week. […]
Conference Season: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Last weekend was the Florida Education Association Delegate Assembly. Tomorrow starts the Social Science History Association annual meeting. Two weeks from tomorrow? History of Education Society meeting. The Good They’re all in Florida; FEA DA was downtown Tampa, and HES will be downtown St Pete. (SSHA is in Miami.) I finished the papers for SSHA […]
Oh good grief (the personal version)
Stay up late listening to the seventh game of the ALCS. Go to sleep, but not for long enough. Wake up. Shower. Dress. Drive son to school. Arrive on campus. Turn on computer. Realize you left your reading glasses at home. Drive home. Talk with spouse for a few minutes. Drive to campus. Realize you […]