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Funding fudges
As CNN reports, state funding for higher ed has continued to decline as a proportion of total revenues. This is why claims about “educational inflation” being higher than general inflation is misleading—it’s true for tuition costs but not all costs; it’s true for some elite institutions but not the bulk; and it neatly avoids the […]
Misconstruing schools of education
Peter Wood, the provost at King’s College, has abolished the college’s school of education, something that Joanne Jacobs and Margaret Soltan have noted.
What didn’t happen this week
If I had been approached by a state’s minority legislative caucus staff earlier this year about whether I’d be interested in being asked to participate in a forum on ed policy, but they hadn’t been able to convince the sponsors to allow in those with views different from the state’s governor, then something like the […]
Summers, teaching, and history
NYU historian of ed Jonathan Zimmerman has penned an article on Larry Summers that’s really about college teaching, and then University Diarist responded.
The schedule has fallen apart. We apologize for the inconvenience.
By Sherman Dorn on March 24, 2006
The 7.49 loyal readers of this blog may have wondered at the hypothetical story that appeared on my blog last week. Well, some things aren’t hypothetical. I’ve been invited to address a committee of the Florida legislature next week about the state’s education accountability policies (or, more specifically, address HB 1427). So, this throws a […]
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