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Chicago and social movements: blogging a conference
This weekend I am at the Social Science History Association, and the current session on Chicago and social-science research is one of the sessions that combine a national academic conference with a local context. After all, we’re meeting in Chicago this weekend. The first paper by Victoria Brown was about Jane Addams and is part […]
From confectionary to connected reasoning
Occasionally, I have students or colleagues who provide a stream of oddly (and sometimes randomly) connected chunks of material as if the stream is sufficient to carry an argument or thought. In the past I’ve had little trouble understanding why such streams are illogical but great trouble understanding why the author of the stream thinks […]
Peter Ratener, not the swiftest test item writer in the world
The math professor at Bellevue Community College is a fool at best to start out a multi-part question with the following: Condoleezza holds a watermelon just over the edge of roof of the 300-foot Federal Building, and tosses it up with a velocity of 20 feet per second…. When originally written in 2004, the exam […]
Overload
I am in the middle of the week from Heck (as Dilbert would put it). Yesterday, I began listing my tasks for the week and squeezed in everything I had to do, barely … and then realized there were two huge projects (finishing a chapter and working with a set of data I should've had […]
"Man in Black" (Halloween version)
By Sherman Dorn on October 31, 2007
After the series of photoshopped education “costumes” on Eduwonkette, I should confess that I didn’t put on any costume, or so I thought when I went into work. An undergrad work-study student showed up as a flower child, and another coworker came in orange and black. I thought for a second, looked down at my […]
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