Triangulation on accountability?
On December 4, Andrew Rotherham begged Democrats to take a strong stand on accountability … [or miss] good chances to legitimately attack the Republicans on education and build collateral credibility on other issues. He explained what he terms the lack of such a stand on too many years of inhaling NEA laughing gas about the […]
Volunteer annoyances
I volunteer in my son’s elementary school on Monday mornings, but things have changed this year. Because of a state law requiring fingerprinting/background checks for vendor employees in public schools, school districts are having to make choices about which volunteer situations require fingerprinting (at a cost of $50/person, which the district can’t really pay and […]
Droll!
Oh, that’s funny. One of my students wrote that the cave allegory in Plato’s The Republic is the “least sensible” idea in the whole semester. Quite. 😉
NY Sun and Al-Arian
Josh Gerstein of the New York Sun called me this afternoon and asked me about the future of Al-Arian vis-a-vis USF. My answers were a technical way of say, “Gee, I don’t know, and here is why it’s complicated,” as well as, “It’s a bit premature to say that anything at the trial justifies or […]
Haloscan comments with ads??
By Sherman Dorn on December 13, 2005
Has anyone else noticed the appearance of text ads in Haloscan comments? It’s appearing in my comments but not in those of some other blogs. Hmmn…
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