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We’re Number 200-something!
The University of South Florida now ranks in the 200s in Shanghai Jiao Tong University’s Institute of Higher Education Top 500 World University “study” (thanks to Frog in a Well for the link). The method (incorrectly termed “methodology,” but that’s a different rant) is better on some levels than the North American rankings based substantially […]
Reviewing books to kill Benjamin Bloom
If I were to categorize that in Bloom’s Taxonomy, knowing the author’s perspective would be “knowledge,” the lowest, basest form of thinking according to the hierarchical thinking-classifiers. And yet it is the hardest task in reviewing a book.
Irregular verbs
When I first saw Yes, Prime Minister, I was charmed by its wit and insight into politics. Probably the best lasting contribution was the invention of the irregular verb, a pointed description of different (and egocentric) perspectives: I have high standards. You sometimes let your students get easy A's. They are letting grade inflation run […]
Holiday
No assigned work today—holiday, and Elizabeth helps me enforce my standards on this sort of thing. I’m allowing myself to do stuff that’s linked to social activism, in the spirit of MLK, but that’s it.
Bleargh
By Sherman Dorn on February 3, 2005
Head colds are nasty enough in life, they shouldn’t make me restless and unproductive, but they tend to. I hope this is one of the few bad head colds (and I’m quite sure it’s one of the few bad ones in a year) that does not keep me up until 2:30 or 3 late in […]
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