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Fun with historical GIS
My wonderful spouse has consistently reminded me over the years that as a union member, it is a violation of my principles to work on any specific task during a paid holiday. Today was a paid holiday, and I’ve tried to follow her advice by doing something new and completely unplanned, even if work-related. (There […]
On teaching as a perpetual activity
New Kid on the Hallway’s entry today on watching the (rebroadcast) Eyes on the Prize has me focusing on two thoughts: Wow. This really is evidence of how long the series has been unavailable to too many people. NK’s comments show how much education really is a matter of making sure that information and perspectives […]
To inspiring teachers
Military historian Mark Grimsley writes today about visiting his ninth-grade teacher Billie Cranford. Go read. Just go read it.
Of liberal arts colleges, a core curriculum, and contingent faculty
One might suppose that the following is an object lesson about the type of overgeneralizing that Donald Kagan swims in for his Commentary magazine piece about imperious faculty. (Much better: head to University Diarist’s corresponding entry and the fascinating comment thread.) Are faculty blocking a core curriculum either through their pomo aspirations or laziness/caring more […]
Overquoting
By Sherman Dorn on September 16, 2006
Excerpts from a note to a class after grading one set of quizzes: There were two reasons why the quiz scores were lower for this quiz than for the others. First, the material is more difficult, and most of you haven’t had experience with legal opinions. I wouldn’t be surprised at all if this quiz […]
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