The second Bush administration and educational research
One of the sotto voce points of the AFT study on charter schools is that the Bush administration suppressed the information (and thus AFT staff members went looking for it). This parallels the criticisms that the Bush administration has politicized physical and biological science. The irony is that the language of the No Child Left […]
Academic-freedom juggling
Yesterday morning, former USF adjunct professor Lynn Stratton called the St. Pete campus the University of Silence in Florida because an administrator called for faculty to “monitor” what they said in the classroom in terms of tomorrow’s election. I suspect it’s going to be a relatively hot topic over the next few days on this […]
Education Policy Analysis Archives
Sometime in the next few hours, I expect the public announcement that I’ll be the next editor of the Education Policy Analysis Archives. That’s an honor, a challenge, and a long-term commitment.
On great compendia
I recently received a “call for entries” in a planned encyclopedia (or handbook or … the term doesn’t really matter), expected to be printed by a Beaucoup Bucks publisher. Why am I so cynical about this project?
See George dissemble
By Sherman Dorn on November 29, 2004
No, I’m not talking about our president but George Will, whose November 28 column on academe repeated the distortion of the American Enterprise Institute’s Karl Zinzmeister that our campuses are one-party operations. If you look at the graphs from this “study,” it appears as if American academics have only a left wing, because—gasp!—there were five […]
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