In the Georgia Archives (again)
I’m back in the Georgia Archives again this week, with a digital camera taking images of the local superintendents’ reports to the state department of education from the late 30s through the early 60s. At the moment, they don’t allow use of flash or tripods, so it’s an interesting challenge to hold my arms still […]
Independence is a state of mind
Thanks to former history grad student eb‘s reorganization of the blog no great matter, I found out about two of Timothy Burke’s entries on intellectual diversity from February and December 2004. In them, Burke points out the more subtle ruts that academics fall into based on disciplinary and institutional mores and suggests that most academics […]
Bloody search committees
- What about an external review of assistant-professor candidate pools?
- What about using the target-of-opportunity program structure to expand the type of subfields included in a department?
Blog research
At MIT, Cameron Marlow is working on a social-network dissertation with blog authors as the target population. Want to help?
On patriotism and principles
By Sherman Dorn on July 4, 2005
I’m an educational historian, and sometimes there are gems in my field that say something to the world at large. Today, it’s from the wartime court decision on the Pledge of Allegiance, West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette (1943): If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no […]
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