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U.S. News rankings
Like many faculty, I’m of two minds about the U.S. News rankings. On the one hand, it can bring recognition to the work of colleagues. In particular, there are three programs in my department that have had successful grant writers, and they all contribute to the rankings of my own college in the graduate-school issue […]
Jim Anderson retrospective, part 2
A few days ago I described the 20th-anniversary Jim Anderson retrospective at AERA. Now it’s my turn to address some of the topics raised in that session, in a personal historiography, or my reading of The Education of Blacks in the South, originally published in 1988. For me, the thesis of the book was not […]
Tacit knowledge and the AERA program hustle
Eduwonkette has commented on the heterogeneous quality of sessions at the American Educational Research Association annual meeting, quoted someone saying it was a tenure hustle, and suggested that the IES-funded Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness is a rival to AERA. (Oh, yes, and her friend skoolboy is right in recommending Topaz Thai.) I’ve commented […]
In Mid-town Manhattan
I’m at the corner of Broadway and 54th right now, with relatively minimal fuss except that in the rush to pack last night, I grabbed my daughter’s jacket instead of mine, and I installed a package to my Linux laptop without pinning, so a whole bunch of things disappeared and I had to wipe the […]
I’m feeling better… I think I’m going to go for a walk
I know it’s been a super-busy week, but I was taken aback when one of the searches leading people to this website turned out to be “Dorn of the Dead.” Lal Bihari and the Association of Dead People aside (they do great work and won the 2003 Ig Nobel prize for peace), I’m still here, […]