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Sterility or psychodrama vs. untimed engagement or intellectual drama
Margaret Soltan is not a Luddite—far from it, she has used her University Diaries blog to become one of American academic letters’ premier public intellectuals. But as an observer of college life, she has a well-reasoned hatred of what she calls technolust. She regularly links to stories about students who abuse cell phones and laptops […]
Jim Anderson retrospective, part 2
A few days ago I described the 20th-anniversary Jim Anderson retrospective at AERA. Now it’s my turn to address some of the topics raised in that session, in a personal historiography, or my reading of The Education of Blacks in the South, originally published in 1988. For me, the thesis of the book was not […]
You can write a very nice article describing train wrecks
The budget situation for Florida is pitiful and deteriorating. I’m on the Florida Education Association‘s governance board, and we’re meeting this weekend. I think the students in the Florida Student Education Association and the occasional younger teacher were probably among the few who were truly partying last night at the reception. Part of it is […]
NCLB and where we sit
In my undergraduate social foundations class, I spend some time explaining the politics of accountability. For the last few years, a critical mass of students (either a majority or a vocal minority) have consistently opposed accountability, taking on the mantle of professionalism, and it’s my job to rattle their cages and make them see things […]
On eprints at Harvard and Full Monty open-access
I’m still trying to figure out the consequences of Harvard’s Arts and Science faculty voting last week to push open-access publication of faculty work. This is fundamentally different from the occasional individual boycott of subscription-based journals. Harvard’s faculty move is closer to Congress’s push for a mandate that all grant-funded articles etc. be accessible to […]