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"Man in Black" (Halloween version)
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 […]
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 […]
1000
The first entry for this blog is dated March 24, 2001, with 2400 days between that entry and this one. (For those who check permalinks, there are two reasons why this entry is number 1053 instead of 1000: some entries get uploaded twice by mistake, so one copy must be deleted, and there is another, rather […]
The day I’ve been waiting for
Exercise. Catching up with my online class’s discussion board and adding the starter for a new thread. Reading and accepting three revised manuscripts for Education Policy Analysis Archives. Writing two (and with this, three) short blog entries. More small tasks to come. In other words, today has been a perfectly mundane day. I needed it.
Hug Threat Level: Orange
By Sherman Dorn on November 7, 2007
In Mascoutah, Illinois, Megan Coulter was suspended for hugging a friend. In Taiwan, meanwhile, the military quickly suspended its new program begun October 1 to welcome new soldiers with a hug. Hugging is dangerous stuff, whether in the military or in schools. Apart from the documented threat that teenaged huggers will spread dangerous diseases such as […]
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