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Wake up and go to sleep with AERA
This says nothing about my personal life but instead about my often-fragmented day: I started work early this morning at the auto dealer’s working on a paper I’m co-presenting at AERA with Stephen Provasnik, and I’m closing out my local coffeehouse by… working on the paper. I only wish I could have spent hours and […]
Punching through
This morning, I drove my son to a workshop with a ninth-degree black belt in tae kwondo. While he was learning how to punch more effectively, I was writing some critical paragraphs in the article MS I’ve returned to. Quite pleased, and I’ve set up the rest of the argument’s structure reasonably well. I need […]
It was 20 years ago today, Green’s theorem began to play… (oh, how WRONG)
I don’t do paid work or shop on legal holdidays. (Today, I did a bit of civic duty and a bit of personal stuff.) Or I try not to. This story is of how my effort not to work on MLK day has succeeded, but also failed. Not today, quite, but around 20 years ago, […]
Zotero – love at first byte
This tells you something about my semester: it’s taken until this weekend for me to try out Zotero, essentially an open-source citation database system. (I do wait until others on the bleeding edge show a new tool is useful, but I try to be in the second wave of adopters of useful tools.) It’s free, […]
American Journal of Sociology review of "Schools as Imagined Communities"
I just found online the book review of Schools as Imagined Communities that Scott Davies wrote in the American Journal of Sociology. It’s positive, and it includes the following in the conclusion: As a whole, the book offers sociologists several themes to ponder, such as the uneasy relation between ideals of school community and formal equality, […]