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Writing and editing

Can reporters raise their game in writing about education research?

I know that I still owe readers the ultimate education platform and the big, hairy erratum I promised last month, but the issue of research vetting has popped up in the education blogule*, and it’s something I’ve been intending to discuss for some time, so it’s taking up my pre-10:30-am time today. In brief, Eduwonkette […]

Sketching a course 6

Habits and experienceToday I’m trying desperately to finish a paper that is far too late. Part of the delay is the craziness that is my professional and union life, but another part is that I am delving into two subjects that I have not been diligent in keeping up with. I am keenly interested in […]

So I’m on a list… welcome to Washington Post readers

Welcome to those who are visiting after seeing Jay Mathews and Ken Bernstein’s Favorite Education Blogs of 2008 column. As you’ll see from the entry made earlier today, it’s a wonderful irony that I’m on a selective list the same day that I criticize such lists. Heh! In any case, Mathews’s blurb is better than […]

Guesting on Edwize!

I’ve gone and committed guest blogging over at the UFT blog Edwize. The gist of the argument is that Joel Klein’s pulling a Microsoft-like maneuver with accountability. And he’s the guy who prosecuted Microsoft for antitrust violations.

E-book versions of “Schools as Imagined Communities”

You can buy Schools as Imagined Communities as a Kindle e-book or through eBooks.com, with royalties going to non-profit organizations.