Remote-control teaching
I’m considering letting students have remote controls in class next semester.
Age-specific data from 20th c.
In working on my paper for the History of Education Society meeting in 12 days, I’ve been thinking about the work involved in historical data here. There are snippets of data in Harvard’s Gutman Library (or otherwise gathered) from Arizona, Delaware, Georgia, New York, Louisiana, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania. Some are from states (Arizona, Delaware, and […]
What students know (or think they do)
This semester is my first teaching one of the frosh courses in USF’s Honors College, and I enjoyed meeting my students this morning, though there was one disconcerting minute or two, when I was trying to encourage discussion of real-life high-stakes examples of trying to discern truth. (The course, titled “Acquisition of Knowledge,” is really […]
Comments from NIH!
The NIH program director sent me the comments of the study section on the net-flow grant proposal. On the whole, they were very encouraging, in two ways. First, they generally agreed that the approach I had in January (when I submitted the proposal) was sound and interesting, and there was nothing inherently problematic. Second, their […]
Grant proposal away!
The proposal to NSF based on the net-flow estimates is now submitted. We’ll see what happens. (I asked for a primary review by the Sociology program.) Thanks to a staff member in my college, I now know how to get the parallel data (not by grade but in toto) to estimate net flows for graduate […]