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Grading doggerel
profgrrl inspired me, even though I’m not teaching this summer: In grading some are at their best but others can get quite depressed when marking “wrong” and sometimes “right” and eat and grade all through the night. (Halvah’s great, but M&Ms feed the brain cells and the stem. What helps read mensch or plain mean […]
Boiling down the stratification literature
With a new doctoral student this fall, I advised that we arrange an independent reading course on stratification and institutions, because there is no doctoral-level course right now that fits the bill, and the breadth of topics pushed me to figure out the essential introduction to stratification (as one of four topics for the semester). […]
Arrests in murder case of Ronald Stem
Three teenagers have now been arrested in the murder of my former student Ronald Stem. Two were arrested in April and one more was arrested this past week. One known suspect is still at large.
Social foundations exam questions
The questions from this semester’s undergraduate social foundations of education exam (for my sections): Would graduation by portfolio change the expectations that school systems hold for students? Describe the extent to which the U.S. population trusts teachers to do their job. Compare a main argument of your first book with any of the lectures. Contrast […]
On writing tics and mental kits
I’ve written before on writing tics, such as the horde of whereases that used to appear in my student writing. (I wonder how many of them knew that the conjunctive whereas is a contronym, a fact that caused a few problems in their essays.) Tics are easy problems to solve: you point them out, and […]