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Summers of Discontent
Larry Summers has resigned, and the blogosphere is full of intemperate claims of political correctness. Tim Burke has the sensible view. No one’s hands are particularly clean here (are they ever, at Harvard?), but Larry Summers had plenty of self-inflicted wounds.
And on the right side of publishing competence …
Our edited book Schools as Imagined Communities is out! I’m so happy. This is one of the two edited collections I’ve been working on for the last few years. The other one is still in press, but the imagined communities book has been a labor of love, especially since it involves other people’s labor. Go […]
A preposition! My kingdom of a preposition!
Well, I’ve been misquoted in the press again, if mildly. Ed Week reporter Debra Viadero wrote a generally nice article about Rob Warren’s EPAA article comparing different graduation measures, and she quoted from an e-mail I had sent her after a misdirected missive (that came to me though intended for someone else). I had written […]
On tap this weekend
The tradeoffs of scheduling your own time: my son’s after-care situation has been deteriorating (or maybe at a steady-state mediocre quality), and until a new after-care can open in early March, I’ve decided to pick him up early as many days a week as I can (which is the majority). I’m very relieved to have […]
Performing masculinity in academe
By Sherman Dorn on March 10, 2006
Some time ago, a colleague of mine called another colleague (one I respect for several good reasons) a “number one asshole.” This wasn’t to his face but to me, at the tail end of a discussion about something my colleague (the insulting one) is rather stressed over (unrelated for the most part to the insulted […]
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