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Murdered student
I found out this morning that one of my former students was murdered at USF’s campus late one night this week. Ronald Stem was a student in my masters-level history of education class a few years ago. Fundamentally a nice guy, he was a Vietnam veteran who loved history and was hoping to become a […]
Sideways looks at ed policy
On the cryptic-note front (move along, move along, there’s nothing to see here), I want to set down briefly what I discovered from trying to explain my sideways looks at ed policy to undergraduates last semester. While this doesn’t quite capture my disciplinary (history) background, I tried to explain a bit about my political legacy […]
Beginning of semester
Tomorrow’s my first teaching day, but the semester begins today for USF, and after several days of combining a research trip with seeing friends, I need to switch directions. Finish syllabus revision, toss things on the web, etc. Update (11 am): Perhaps I shouldn’t have done my weekly volunteering gig at my son’s elementary school. […]
Droll!
Oh, that’s funny. One of my students wrote that the cave allegory in Plato’s The Republic is the “least sensible” idea in the whole semester. Quite. 😉
No motivation
I’m reading final papers from one class and waiting for the other class to upload final exam answers today to the university’s portal. But I have a family trip to plan and purchase for, errands to run, house things to arrange, and bills to pay, so I have plenty of grading to do and no […]