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Danziger, Contructing the Subject, and the dangers of following the trail
Thanks to a trail of other readings, I’m now delving into Theodore Potter’s Trust in Numbers (1995) and Kurt Danziger’s Constructing the Subject (1990), both relatively dense books discussing topics on the edges of my concerns with testing and professional expertise. While reading the page proofs of a book that will be coming out in […]
The "New" Commission and Jurgen Herbst
Achieve, Inc.–National Center on Education and the Economy smackdown program notes: Has anyone else noticed that the redesign recommendations of the New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce are just a wee bit inconsistent with Achieve Inc.’s American Diploma Project? End high school as we know it at the end of grade 10 […]
Growth models
… One of my concerns with the increasingly complex world of statistical models of growth is their amazingly disconnect from fields that should be natural allies. We have great statistical packages that are incredibly complex, but some days they seem more like solutions in search of problems than a logical outgrowth of the need to model growth and development in children. …
Al-Arian and academic freedom, redux
…I’m sure that if there is a conviction, many will claim that the conviction is proof that the administration of USF did the right thing by trying to fire Al-Arian before indictment and by firing him right afterwards. That is essentially an argument that the end result of a criminal trial justifies the employment actions of a university….
A contrarian definition of big social-science history
[Social Science History Association] Networks are encouraged to imagine the research program they would conduct with a multi-million dollar grant. (Full CFP.) … Big social-science history is interdisciplinary collaboration in history that can create, develop, or support a research agenda that would not be possible by researchers acting alone. Big social-science history should focus on collaboration and infrastructure that makes research possible. Big social-science history makes the tools and end results widely available to researchers and other readers worldwide…. None of these look like the “big social-science history” projects that were legends when I was in grad school.