Low-stakes testing promoted by high-stakes advocate
A guest blogger at the Progressive Policy Institute’s Eduwonk proposes that all students in AP courses take the AP tests as an incentive for teachers to focus on the official Advanced Placement curriculum. Let me get this right, according to the author: It’s no shame to fail: for kids, they learn what college rigor is […]
Eduwonk
The DLC-affiliated Public Policy Institute has a blog, Eduwonk.com. Unfortunately, they’re not letting anyone else in on the conversation with comments. Come on, folks: what are you afraid of? Comments are a significant part of what distinguishes a blog from a rant. Okay, many blog entries are rants. But intellectual life requires openness to dialog, […]
Liars at ACTA
I have never seen ACTA address any of these issues undermining liberal-arts education (please correct me if I’m wrong!) and have seen ACTA turn a blind eye to the violations of its principles by supposed friends.
Still grading…
Fortunately, I didn’t have to worry about going back to the federal courthouse for jury duty today (or again this week, according to the phone system I just called), so I just have to finish the grading. Back home now, finish the job, post grades to Blackboard, and then get on to other tasks: union […]
Bulwer-Lytton failure
By Sherman Dorn on July 28, 2005
Alerted by Margaret Soltan, I found the winners of this year’s Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest. Alas, I did not earn any recognition for this scintillating entry: Leaning backwards over the balcony after three glasses of Merlot, the dean suddenly found himself dropping into the courtyard like a delinquent duck shot by a vigilante Supreme Court justice, […]
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