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Writing and editing

One Blog Schoolhouse: the PDF

Should’ve been done a few months ago, but if you want to read the entire text of One Blog Schoolhouse, it’s now available as a nonprinting PDF. (I recommend that you click the “PDF” link in brackets, since I don’t know if scribd will convert a nonprinting PDF.) The entire thing. Absolutely free to read.

The Child has arrived!

This week I received my contributor’s copy of The Child: An Encyclopedic Companion. I have a single entry (on dropouts), and it’s clear there’s lots of good stuff in it on a range of topics, including a substantial section with historical and social-science perspectives on families. I think the cost is about on par for […]

Find the typo! and other national-stage blogging

The National Journal unveiled its new education policy blog yesterday. My first response has an embarrassing writing goof; see if you can spot it!

Kindle version of “One-Blog Schoolhouse” available!

The Kindle version of One-Blog Schoolhouse is now available, for approximately half the price of the paper version. (Yes, I get less money per copy for the electronic version. That’s okay. You don’t get the cool blurbs that are at the front of the trade paper version.) The trade paper version is also available at […]

Eduwonkette is a graduate student

Who says that students are powerless? Eduwonkette is Jennifer Jennings, a doctoral sociology student at Columbia University. In retrospect, it makes an enormous amount of sense, and “grad student at Columbia” was one of the categories Leo Casey and I tossed around this spring as a possibility for Eduwonkette’s identity. Jennings has worked with demographer […]